American Cookery - The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables by Amelia Simmons
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_To stuff a Turkey._ Grate a wheat loaf, one quarter of a pound butter, one quarter of a pound salt pork, finely chopped, 2 eggs, a little sweet marjoram, summer savory, parsley and sage, pepper and salt (if the pork be not sufficient,) fill the bird and sew up. The same will answer for all Wild Fowl. _Water Fowls_ require onions. The same ingredients stuff a _leg of Veal, fresh Pork_ or a _loin of Veal_. _To stuff and roast a Turkey, or Fowl._ One pound soft wheat bread, 3 ounces beef suet, 3 eggs, a little sweet thyme, sweet marjoram, pepper and salt, and some add a gill of wine; fill the bird therewith and sew up, hang down to a steady solid fire, basting frequently with salt and water, and roast until a steam emits from the breast, put one third of a pound of butter into the gravy, dust flour over the bird and baste with the gravy; serve up with boiled onions and cramberry-sauce, mangoes, pickles or celery. 2. Others omit the sweet herbs, and add parsley done with potatoes. 3. Boil and mash 3 pints potatoes, wet them with butter, add sweet |
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