Cooking Recipe - How to Bake Turkey Pies

Cooking Recipe - How to Bake Turkey Pies

Cooking Recipe - How to Bake Turkey Pies

Turkey Pies Ingredients:

Eight pound turkey meat, cut up

Water

Two large carrots, cut coarsely

Two large stalks celery (with leaves), cut coarsely

One small onion

Six clovers

Six large sprigs parsley

Twelve peppercorns

One bay leaf

Three table spoon salt

One fourth cup turkey fat, butter or vegetable oil

One pound mushrooms, sliced

Two cups turkey stock

Twelve medium carrots, sliced thin

One medium bunch celery, sliced

Thin on diagonal

Three table spoon salt

One half table spoon pepper

Two table spoon dried leaf thyme

One table spoon dried leaf marjoram

One table spoon dried leaf chervil

One cup chopped parsley

One lb cooked ham, cut in strips

(Canned ham is fine)

One cup butter or margarine

One cup chopped onion

One cup flour

Six cups liquid (vegetable cooking liquid plus turkey stock)

Two tablespoon salt

One fourth table spoon pepper

One fourth table spoon nutmeg

One table spoon lemon juice

Two cups light cream

Sage Pastry (recipe follows)

One egg yolk

One table spoon cold water

Procedure:

At the outset, you have to put the turkey in a large kettle and have it covered with cold water. Second, you need to add the coarsely cut carrots, the celery, the onion stuck with the cloves, the parsley, the peppercorns, the bay leaf and the salt. After that, you have to bring it to a boil, and then you turn down the heat. Next, you need to cover and simmer this until the turkey becomes just tender. Cook this for about two to three hours. Afterward, you need to lift out the pieces of the turkey and then cool it. Next, strain, cool and chill the turkey stock. After that, you lift the fat off the top of stock and set it aside for later usage. Next to that, you have to take the turkey meat off the bones and cut them into bite-size pieces. Following that, you refrigerate the stock, the fat and the meat until you are ready to make the pie (all of this step can be done the day ahead). You should have about ten cups (2.5 L) turkey meat and fourteen cups(3.5L) stock.

Furthermore, you need to have ready a two 3-qt (4-L) casseroles when you start making the pies. Then, you need to heat the one fourth cup (60 ml) turkey fat, the butter or the vegetable oil in a large heavy skillet. Following that you add up the mushrooms, and then cook this gently for about five minutes. Stir this constantly. After that, you have to remove this from heat. Next to that, you heat the two cups (500 ml) turkey stock to boiling point in a large saucepan. Next to that, you must add the sliced carrots and the celery. Later, you have to bring this back to a boil, then turn down the heat, cover and cook this until the vegetables becomes tender-crisp. Do this for about ten minutes. Later, you need to drain this, saving the cooking liquid.

Moreover, you have to combine the three tablespoons (15 ml) salt, the pepper, the thyme, the marjoram, the chervil and the parsley in a small dish. And then, you put the layers of turkey, the mushrooms, the vegetables and the ham strips in each of the casseroles, sprinkling each vegetable layer with a little of the salt-herb mixture and then continuing to sprinkle the layers until all ingredients are used.

And finally, you must heat the one cup (250ml) butter (or margarine) in a large saucepan. And then you add up the chopped onion. And then cook and stir this for about three minutes or even until the onion becomes limp. After that, you need to sprinkle in the flour. Let this bubble. Next to that, you remove this from the heat. And then, you add up the six cups (1.5 L) liquid. (Save any left-over stock for the soup for another day). Stir this to blend. Finally, you add the two tablespoons (10 ml) salt, the pepper and the nutmeg. Return it to heat and cook this until it is boiling, and thickened. Serve immediately.

Ideas For Gourmet Cooking on a Budget

How much do you pay for a meal in a fancy restaurant? How much just for the entree? Even on the low end of the scale, you could be paying around $15 per person for an entree. Sometimes you may end up paying $20-$30. Well, you can save a lot of money by cooking at home, and you can make a meal just as good, if not better than you can find in a fancy restaurant. You can easily cook up a gourmet quality meal at home with ingredients that you can easily find in your local grocery store, and with what you already have in your kitchen. If you do some planning, and look around in your store for some good prices, you can make a meal for $5.00 per serving that would cost $15-$30 in a fancy restaurant.

Ideas For Gourmet Cooking on a Budget

The most important thing to do is to plan the meal ahead of time, before you go shopping. A typical meal consists of a main dish (fish, chicken, pork, beef), a starch (rice, pasta, potatoes), and a vegetable or salad. For example, you may go into a restaurant, and order a steak; typically, it will come with a potato and vegetables. You'll want to keep the three elements in mind when you plan your meal. The main dish, should be the primary focus of your meal, after all, you don't go into a restaurant and order a baked potato in order to get the steak. So, you'll want to start by deciding what the main dish is going to be. Look in your newspaper for circulars from your local grocery stores, and find out what is on sale. Pork chops are usually a good deal. I know I commonly find pork loin chops for around $1.00 per serving, and they are thick enough to stuff with other ingredients. Keep in mind the price per serving when you're shopping. $8.99 per pound for tuna steaks may seem like a lot, but 1 pound is 3-4 servings, meaning about $2.25-$3.00 per serving... not too bad.

Decide what you want to do with the main dish. If the meat is thick enough, you can add a lot of flavor by stuffing it. Here, you can add things like cheese or sausage, or use your favorite stuffing mix. This is an opportunity to add a lot of flavor without spending a lot of money. You can buy a jar of sun dried tomatoes for probably around $5.00. That may seem like a lot, but one jar can go a long way. You only need a little bit to add a lot of flavor to a meal. You can also whip up a quick marinade to add flavor to the meat.

The sides are probably the least expensive part of the meal. Grab a head of lettuce, a couple of tomatoes, and maybe a little bit of cheese, and you have a great salad. You can also chop up some of the sun dried tomatoes, mentioned earlier, and use them to add some flavor to the salad. You can find several varieties of frozen vegetables in the freezer section of the store that are just as good a fresh. Just heat them up and serve. For a starch, potatoes, rice, or pasta are all inexpensive, and you can find several ways to add variety to them. Add some roasted garlic and a little bit of olive oil, or you can use the aforementioned sun dried tomatoes.

It isn't hard to cook a nice meal if you just use your imagination. Choose your meat, and then decide on how you want to add flavor, and what you can do to make something a little different than what you usually do. Choose a nice inexpensive vegetable or salad, and a side dish, and you've got a complete meal. You can do it in your own kitchen, and you can make it for less than $5.00 per serving.

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