Turkey or Chicken Giblets

Ingredients

• turkey or chicken giblets
• five ounces of bacon
• salt
• pepper
• thyme
• laurel-leaves
• an onion stuck with cloves
• a dozen turnips
• sliced carrots
• potatoes
• chopped celery
• two lumps of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Take either some turkey or chicken giblets, gizzards, and livers, scald, clean, and cut them up into pieces, do not use the heads.

2. 2

   Warm in a saucepan with butter; when brown, add five ounces of bacon, cut into four pieces, brown them also; remove the giblets and bacon, stir a little flour into the butter, and when thick add two tumblersful of water; season with salt, pepper, thyme, laurel-leaves, and an onion stuck with cloves; simmer the giblets in this sauce for two hours.

3. 3

   Blanch a dozen turnips in boiling water for a quarter of an hour, drain and add to the stew, with some sliced carrots, potatoes, chopped celery, and two lumps of sugar; when cooked, clear the sauce of all grease and serve very hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from 366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English (1884) by Brisse, L©♭on baron, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Turkey or chicken giblets. Rosbif garni de pommes nouvelles. Roast beef and new potatoes, Langouste sauce au homard. Sea crayfish, lobster sauce. Fèves à la sarriette. Broad beans with cream. Omelette aux cerises. Cherry omelet. Turkey or chicken giblets. Take either some turkey or chicken giblets, gizzards, and livers, scald, clean, and cut them up into pieces, do not use the heads. Warm in a saucepan with butter; when brown, add five ounces of bacon, cut into four pieces, brown them also ; remove the giblets and bacon, stir a little flour into the butter, and when thick add two tumblersful of water ; season with salt, pepper, thyme, laurel-leaves, and an onion stuck with cloves ; simmer the giblets in this sauce for two hours. Blanch a dozen turnips in boiling water for a quarter of an hour, drain and add to the stew, with some sliced carrots, potatoes, chopped celery, and two lumps of sugar

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