Turkey Stuffed with Oysters

Ingredients

• Select a nice plump turkey
• a pint of oysters
• half a cup of butter
• a spoonful of powdered thyme
• three pints of stale bread crumbs
• three eggs
• salt
• pepper
• some milk

Method

1. 1

   Prepare stuffing by stewing oysters in their liquor, draining, and cutting into bits.

2. 2

   Mix with butter, onion, thyme, stale bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

3. 3

   Stuff the turkey, rub with butter, dredge with salt, pepper, and flour, and roast in the oven, basting every 10-15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Turkey Stuffed with Oysters. Select a nice plump turkey, draw and wash thoroughly. Prepare stuffing in the following manner: Take a pint of oysters, put in a pan and stew in their own liquor, drain off the liquor and cut the oysters into bits, add half a cup of butter, a shred- ded onion and a spoonful of pow- dered thyme; let _____ all simmer to- Turkey Ready for Cooking. gether ; moisten three pints of stale bread crumbs with the oyster liquor, add the oysters and onion, break in three eggs, season with salt and pepper, and mix all thoroughly together; if the stuffing is too dry,add some milk

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