[Sca-cooks] peacocks

Anne-Marie Rousseau dailleurs at liripipe.com
Mon Jun 12 11:32:52 PDT 2006


yep, I have the 1651 english version of la varenne, tho its ont he shelf at home and so not 
accessible right now! sorry!

did you know that there's a print version of this mss out there now? :) (also on the shelf at 
home :))

--AM, who was always intrigued bythe turkey with raspberries recipe :)



On Mon Jun 12 12:25 , "Ana Valdes"  sent:

>I can  make a rough translation into English of the French file, if
>someone edits my English :)
>Ana
>
>On 6/12/06, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
>adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Susan Fox wrote:
>>
>> > You've had this turkey, you must have, it's one of my standards.  It
>> > came from one of our least favorite sources actually, "The Delectable
>> > Past" which took a period recipe of turkey pieces stewed with
>> > raspberries and transformed to a whole turkey with raspberry glaze on
>> > the outside.  It's still pretty tasty, whether "period" or not.  I'll
>> > have to make it for some other event.
>>
>> Tasty is certainly a plus.
>>
>> I remembered this combination from Wheaton's "Savoring the Past", and
>> went and checked both books. Aresty's version is a pretty
>> straightforward roast turkey with a raspberry glaze, which she
>> compares to baking a ham for basic method. She calls this Turkey a la
>> Varenne. Wheaton also includes a recipe for turkey with raspberries,
>> but hers involves stuffing things under the skin of the turkey before
>> cooking, and saucing it with a number of ingredients, of which
>> raspberries are an optional part.
>>
>> However, she does include la Varenne's recipe (c. ~ 1653 C ),
>> unfortunately without a translation, and my French isn't that
>> advanced. I think his original calls for the skin to be slipped off,
>> the meat removed, chopped with additional veal, bacon, and some other
>> stuff, then placed back into the skin and roasted as a faux turkey,
>> with raspberries included in the sauce if they're in season.
>>
>> Maybe someone (Anne-Marie???) has this in translated form? If not, at
>> some point, maybe tonight, I'll type it in in French...
>>
>> Adamantius
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