Turducken
Turducken is a dish consisting of a deboned
The word turducken is a
The thoracic cavity of the chicken/game hen and the rest of the gaps are stuffed, sometimes with a highly seasoned
The turducken was popularized in America by John Madden, who promoted the unusual dish during NFL Thanksgiving Day games and, later, Monday Night Football broadcasts.[5] On one occasion, the commentator sawed through a turducken with his bare hand, live in the booth, to demonstrate the turducken's contents.[6][7] Madden ate his first on-air turducken on December 1, 1996, during a game between the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams at the Superdome.[8]
Origin
Credit for the creation of the turducken is uncertain, (though one of the first written mentions of a similar dish is found in the 1913 Spanish cookbook
In the United Kingdom, a turducken is a type of ballotine called a "three-bird roast" or a "royal roast".[citation needed] The Pure Meat Company offered a five-bird roast (a goose, a turkey, a chicken, a pheasant, and a pigeon, stuffed with sausage), described as a modern revival of the traditional Yorkshire Christmas pie, in 1989;[11][12] and a three-bird roast (a duck stuffed with chicken stuffed with a pigeon, with sage and apple stuffing) in 1990.[11][12]
Gooducken is a goose stuffed with a duck, which is in turn stuffed with a chicken.[13]
Historical predecessors
In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist
An early form of the recipe was "Pandora's cushion", a goose stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a quail.[14]
Another version of the dish is credited to French diplomat and gourmand Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. The 1891 newspaper article French Legends Of The Table offers Quail à la Talleyrand:[15]
The following for instance, is Talleyrand's fanciful and somewhat roundabout way of roasting a quail. On a day of "inspiration gourmande" at his hotel in the Rue Saint-Florentin, Paris, he composed the following recipe: Take a plump quail, seasoned with truffles, and made tender by having been put into champagne. You put it carefully inside a young Bresse chicken; then sew up the opening, and put dabs of butter all over the chicken. Again, you put the chicken inside a fine Berri turkey, and roast the turkey very carefully before a bright fire. What will be the result? All the juice of the turkey is absorbed by the fowl, and all the juice of the fowl in its turn by the quail. After two hours roasting the fowl, which in reality is composed of three fowls, is ready, and you place the steaming trinity upon a dish of fine porcelain or chiseled silver. Then you pull the chicken out of the turkey, and the quail out of the chicken. The quail? Is it correct to talk of the quail, when this delicious, perfumed dish is indeed too good for any name? You take the quail as you would some sacred relic, and serve it hot, steaming, with its aroma of truffles, after having roasted it to a golden yellow by basting it diligently with the best Gournay butter.
In
Invited by Maharajah Ganga Singh to the most extraordinary of dinners, in the palace at Bikaner, when Anita asks her host for the recipe of such a succulent dish, he answers her seriously, "Prepare a whole camel, skinned and cleaned, put a goat inside it, and inside the goat a turkey and inside the turkey a chicken. Stuff the chicken with a grouse and inside that put a quail and finally inside that a sparrow. Then season it all well, place the camel in a hole in the ground and roast it.
In popular culture
A turducken appeared on the Regular Show episode "The Thanksgiving Special".[citation needed]
See also
- Cockentrice – A dish consisting of a pig sewn to a chicken
- Cherpumple – A dessert inspired by Turducken
- List of duck dishes
- List of meat dishes
- Whole stuffed camel
- Matryoshka– Russia doll
References
- ^ Stradley, Linda; Brenda (2015-05-01). "Turducken History and Recipe". What's Cooking America. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ^ Iredale, Will (21 November 2004). "Three in one bird is big this Christmas" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Engastration". Retrieved 2012-12-26.
- ^ "Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (and Chicken)", The New York Times, November 20, 2002. Accessed November 21, 2007
- ^ "The Story of John Madden's Legendary Turducken", USA Today, November 29, 2017. Accessed November 4, 2019
- ^ "PETA Gives Madden the Bird", New York Post, November 28, 2002. Accessed November 29, 2019
- ^ "John Madden - Turducken 2002 Monday Night Football Eagles vs. 49ers". YouTube.
- ^ "St. Louis Rams at New Orleans Saints - December 1st, 1996". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Pardo Bazan, Emilia (ed.). La Cocina Española Antigua, 1913. p. 208.
- ^ Trillin, Calvin (November 2005). "Turducken Town". National Geographic. Washington. Archived from the original on June 11, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2010.. Retrieved on October 13, 2016
- ^ a b Walker, Harlan (ed.). Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1990: feasting and fasting : proceedings. p. 35.
- ^ a b c Williams, Anne. "Send a friend a meal on wheels", The Sunday Times (London), December 2, 1990.
- ^ a b Iredale, Will (November 21, 2004). "TimesOnline.co.uk Three-in-one bird is big this Christmas". The Times. London. Retrieved May 3, 2010. TimesOnline.co.uk. Retrieved on June 2, 2008
- ^ a b "Pandoras Cushion". Retrieved 2012-12-26.
- The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848–1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 5 November 1891. p. 6. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ "传统湘菜:三层套鸡 - 中国在线".
- ISBN 8176211788
External links
- "Farm creates £665 multibird roast". BBC News. December 30, 2007
- Turducken at Curlie
- "Turducken".
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