[Sca-cooks] deep frying

[Terry Decker]

Were turkeys deep fried in period?

The point was that one uses the amount of fat needed to do the job.  One
doesn't need to use large quantities of fat to deep fry most period foods.
Deep frying a turkey is an unusual and very modern situation.

Bear


>Well you _have_ to if you want to fry a turkey -- just remember not to fill
>the cooker with too much oil
>
>(My thanksgiving was almost a porch fire...)
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>Vitha
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>On 1/20/03 7:30 PM, "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
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>> Why waste two gallons of fat or oil when you can do precisely the same
with
>> a pint?
>>
>> Full immersion frying is extremely wasteful.
>>
>> Bear