Like Matryoshka, Only Edible

[beamjockey]

So again the holidays approach, and again one hears mention of the festive "turducken," a turkey, stuffed with a deboned duck, stuffed with a deboned chicken.

Has anybody yet served up an ostremuturduckengame-hen?

Comments

[gomeza]

I haven't heard of one - perhaps you should take it as a challenge and be the first!

[wcg]

There are many variations on the old French idea of a farce, wherein progressively smaller critters are stuffed into a big critter. The most elaborate one I have is contained in Lobscouse and Spotted Dog, a book of recipes from the Royal Navy. It involves a camel stuffed with a pig stuffed with a lamb stuffed with yellow rice and boiled chickens. I've heard tell of even crazier things, some of them going all the way down to doormice.

[beamjockey]

I actually have that book, authored by Patrick O'Brian fans rabid enough to ransack 18th century cookbooks, apply some guesswork, and come up with recipes for all the stuff that Capt. Aubrey and Dr. Maturin eat.

(It's a work of mighty enthusiasm and misplaced scholarship, equivalent to the Klingonese Macbeth, or the scribblings of the Baker Street Irregulars.)

But, obviously, I haven't read it all the way through, or I'd have recalled the camel thing.

[von_krag]

I think some woman here in the USA had kids at 59. I'm not sure that's a record of merit though.

[chirosinger]

So when's dinner?

[cannibal]

The Royal Roast in the peachcroft.co.uk link off that thread sounds a lot more interesting, free range goose, chicken and wild pheasant. Probably still not as good as all three separately, it sounds like.

[ffutures]

I've eaten a slice of turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken stuffed with another smaller bird, possibly a quail, with stuffing inside that.

It wasn't actually particularly nice.