GRACE WILSON tells you how to Cook and Carve
DMITTEDLY there is nothing to surpass, as a menu for Christ- mas Day, the traditional dinner of turkey and plum pudding.
Most of your turkeys will be bought now, but for those who are making a last-minute choice, the following hinta may be of use.
Have the size of your oven in mind when choosing your bird,
Your Turkey
The breast bene should be flexible, and the feet supple and moist.
TO COOK
HEIGH the bird after trussing and stuffing. Small turkeys can be cook-
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ed in arousting tin covered with two pieces of grease-proof paper with
water sprinkled between. If the bird
is large have it well larded, covered
In the same manner, and rest 11 on a
well-greased grid, with a fin below. to catch the drips.
The paper is removed 20 minutes before the bird is ready.
Turkeys of from 10 to 12lb, need from two-and-a-half to three hours for roasting, and the oven should be turned on for at least 20 minutes before the bird is put in.
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"The breast
is carved from.head to tail."
Every family in the country will be using their ovens on Wednesday cook slowly until the oysters get With Cheese and Mushrooms morning, and the heat pressure may be less than usual.
Banting is very important-every 15 minutes to not too often.
HOW TO CARVE
T TN carving a turkey the leg is taken off at the high, but the wing is not 'separated from the bird as is the case with a chicken. The breast is carved from head to full, and the meat is cut from the wing leaving the bono in position,
Grilled causages are very tasty "help-outs" when there is a very
When the feast is over, don't waste that skeleton. Slew it down for
largo party.
broth. THE SAUCE
celery.
Cook
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By HUGH REDWOOD
HERE is a verso whose exact
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walnuts and chopped cold turkey. Bind these with a white sauce made plump,, only a few minutes, then put the mixture into a dish and sprinkle
Make some rich white sauce, as with turkey lock, season them with over with finely-chopped fresh creamy as you
can afford, and salt, celery salt, paprika pepper and flavour 11, if you like, with a little nutmeg. When the mixture is cold, egg-and- celery salt. Bring it to the boil and shape it into croquettes, then add some thin strips of cooked breadcrumbs them and fry them in
deep fat. a teaspoonful of: finely turkey meat and half that quanlity. chopped onion in a tablespoonful cach of cooked spaghetti cut in half- and a half of butter until soft but inch pieces and small muthrooms not browned. Then, make it into a sliced and previously fried lightly i
tablespoonfuls of butter. Put thin mixture into indi, finely and season it. Bind with a flour and some turkey stock. When -vidual dishes, sprinkle with grated tic. sauce is nicely smooth, add a cheese and breadcrumbs, and brown same puff pasta very thin, spread it teaspoonful of lemon juice, sal in a quick oven.
Bauce with two
HERE is the recipe of a turkey sauce used in one of London's leading paprika pepper, a little finely-chop-
restaurants.
Take some finely-chopped onions and a nut of butter and fry in a stew-pan until brown. Then heat some stock, adding a few pepper-corns and salt. Mix separately some melt d butter and flour, and add to the stock for thickening, then put together with the onions in the stew-pan, Boil the whole for another half-hour, then strain and put into a sauce buat.
THE
HE problem of doing up the tur- Serve in individual shallow dishes with asparagus-tips key, having been faced with in and garnish
genulty and fortitude by the house- warmed in butter.
wife for years and years, must by
now be becoming the despair of the cookery expert who for an equal number of years has been trying to
Calloped
Slice or chop up your
cooked
And new methods for its disposal. turkey meat and put it into a but- I have been doing it myself for a tered Areproof dish with alternate good number of years, and hope that layers of cooked macaroni or rice. the recipes in this article may prove Cover with white, brown or tomato to be novelties to Bome of my sauce, sprinkle with bread-crumbs, readers. In any case, I write them dot with a little butter, and bake with every good wish for a festive until the crumbs are browned. You Christmas, and easy going in the can add a little grated cheese to the
brend-crumbs if you like.
kitchen!
With Ham and Asparagus
With Oysters
If you are feeling extravagant try . Chop up some cooked turkey meat this dish. Chop up, not too finely. and mix it with a third of its quan- some cooked turkey and put it into tity of chopped lean ham. Heat a good white sauce with as many this up in some good white sauce, oysters as you like. Let the sauce
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Lincoln Croquettes
Turkey Cigarettes
Minco up the turkey meat very
thick white sauce. Now roll out
with the turkey mixture and roll it up like a roly-poly. Cut into pieces about four inches long and a little thicker than a cigarette. Brush these This is an American dith which over with beaten egg, roll them in equal line white breadcrumbs and fry them yolk of egg and serve after cooking you may like to try. Taka for a minute longer.
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in small cubes. Let this all heat then bind with a benten through,
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