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[alysten]

I found the turkey recipe. Pre- 1600.... Squee.

To bake a Turkie.
TAke and cleaue your Turkie on the backe, and bruise all the bones: then season it with salt, and pepper grose beaten, and put into it good store of butter: hee must haue five houres baking.

The good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin. London 1594, 1597

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[alysten.livejournal.com]

Well... I think they mean take the back of your knife and crack them, so that the marrow gets released when it is cooking and you will get a lovely goo at the end of the baking process that you can use to make a wonderful sauce.

The butter is larding process. It adds moisture.