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rymrytr in vintage_recipes

Thanksgiving Turkey - Coming Soon at a Table Near You!

Oct 22, 2010 22:46

Got this in an E-Mail last year. (See Website Link Below.)

"Historical Recipes For Inspiration only, not Ingestion.

The cooking times for these recipes are dangerous, but the information is of interest."

From: The Good Housewife's Jewell 1586:

To bake a Turkie and take out his bones. Take a fat Turkie, and after you have scalded him and washed him ( Read more... )

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Comments 10

outsdr October 23 2010, 06:29:02 UTC

"Bake until done" Well, THAT will make it come out perfectly EEVRY TIME, won't it? lol

wrongsidefoxrun October 23 2010, 06:42:43 UTC

your icon is great just,made my night :3

amelia_eve October 23 2010, 13:57:51 UTC

I suspect that historical turkeys were quite a bit smaller than ours are now.

teostra October 23 2010, 16:41:25 UTC

Yeah, wild turkey can get big, but nowhere near the massive birds you pick up at the grocery store. They also don't have so damn much white meat, which is what causes the long cook times you have to normally use. If you deboned and parboiled an average wild turkey? An hour would be plenty of time to roast it.

meezergal October 23 2010, 18:42:13 UTC

"...[take] out his garbage" made me laugh! Also made me happy for precleaned birds of today.

mac_arthur_park October 23 2010, 18:55:34 UTC

I just had a flashback to one of my last T'days with my ex SIL. She only cooks once a year (no. Seriously) and got this recipe from gods know where that involved placing the turkey in a 500F oven for an hour, then turning the oven off for two hours and letting it sit there.

I'm a food service worker. Can I tell you how much this WAS NOT kosher with me?

That was the Ptomaine Turkey Year. Not to be confused with the year she made netted turkey rolls with apricot chutney, which was the Fruity Bondage Turkey Year.

Thank the gods I only have to deal with my batshit crazy MIL this year....who lets me and the spousebeast do all of the cooking. ;)

rymrytr October 24 2010, 01:46:48 UTC

Regarding the "size" of Turkeys; if you will go to the Link on the bottom of the article, to The-Perfect-Turkey dot com, there is a section on Turkey History.

He talks about the weight there and also about how Breeding and Corporate Greed has eliminated all but 4 of the "Natural" turkeys. Basically, when one buys a standard turkey at the local Mega Market, there is just one kind, generally speaking.

Wait, let me just post a direct Link to that part of his Website: Turkey History