Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Turkeys are sometimes stuffed entirely with sausage-meat. Small cakes
of this meat should then be fried, and laid round it.
To bone a turkey, you must begin with a very sharp knife at the top of
the wings, and scrape the flesh loose from the bone without dividing or
cutting it to pieces. If done carefully and dexterously, the whole mass
of flesh may be separated from the bone, so that you can take hold of
the head and draw out the entire skeleton at once. A large quantity of
force-meat having been prepared, stuff it hard into the turkey,
restoring it by doing so to its natural form, filling out the body,
breast, wings and legs, so as to resemble their original shape when the
bones were in. Roast or bake it; pouring a glass of port wine into the
gravy. A boned turkey is frequently served up cold, covered with lumps
of currant jelly; slices of which are laid round the dish.
Any sort of poultry or game may be boned and stuffed in the same
manner,
A cold turkey that has not been boned is sometimes sent to table larded
all over the breast with slips of fat bacon, drawn through the flesh
with a larding needle, and arranged in regular form.
TO BOIL A TURKEY.
Take twenty-five large fine oysters, and chop them. Mix with them half
a pint of grated bread-crumbs, half a handful of chopped parsley, a
quarter of a pound of butter, two table-spoonfuls, of cream or rich
milk, and the beaten yolks of three eggs. When it is thoroughly mixed,
stuff the craw of the turkey with it, and sew up the skin. Then dredge
it with flour, put it into a large pot or kettle, and cover it well
with cold water. Place it over the fire, and let it boil slowly for
half an hour, taking off the scum as it rises. Then remove the pot from
over the fire, and set it on hot coals to stew slowly for two hours, or
two hours and a half, according to its size, Just before you send it to
table, place it again over the fire to get well heated. When you boil a
turkey, skewer the liver and gizzard to the sides, under the wings.
Send it to table with oyster-sauce in a small tureen.
In making the stuffing, you may substitute for the grated bread,
chestnuts boiled, peeled, and minced or mashed. Serve up
chestnut-sauce, made by peeling some boiled chestnuts and putting them
whole into melted butter,
Some persons, to make them white, boil their turkeys tied up in a large
cloth sprinkled with flour.
With a turkey, there should be on the table a ham, or a smoked tongue.
TO ROAST PIGEONS.
Draw and pick four pigeons immediately after they are killed, and let
them be cooked soon, as they do not keep well. Wash the inside very
clean, and wipe it dry. Stuff them with a mixture of parsley parboiled
and chopped, grated bread-crumbs, and butter; seasoned with pepper,
salt, and nutmeg. Dredge them with flour, and roast them before a good
fire, basting them with butter. They will be done in about twenty-five
or thirty minutes. Serve them up with parsley-sauce. Lay the pigeons on
the dish in a row.
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