Turkey with Truffles

Ingredients

• a young medium-sized turkey
• four ounces of the fat of your turkey
• a shallot
• a pound of sausage-meat
• a can of truffles
• a pinch of thyme
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg
• a glass of white wine
• a little butter

Method

1. 1

   Prepare turkey as before.

2. 2

   Melt turkey fat with shallot and chopped truffles, mix with sausage-meat, stuff turkey, sew it up, roast with butter and white wine for 45 minutes, and serve with strained liquid.

As published

This recipe was extracted from French dishes for American tables (1886) by Caron, Pierre, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Turkey with Truffles. Clean and pre- pare a young medium-sized turkey as the foregoing. Melt four ounces of the fat of your turkey in a frying- pan with a shallot and a few truffles chopped fine, a pinch of thyme, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, a pound of sausage-meat, and a can of truffles cut in quarters. Mix all well together, and with this mixture stuff your turkey ; sew up the opening through which you have put your farce. Roast the turkey for three quarters of an hour, putting a little butter on the no FRENCH DISHES. breast and a glass of white wine

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