AMERICAN NOSTALGIA: The 1950s Thanksgiving

[Music] it's news real food news turkey once only a fall and winter holiday star can now because of better ways of breeding a pack table dressed quick-frozen be put on your table when you want it 365 days in the year not just at Thanksgiving and Christmas but in June or July April or May and it's news to good news that now there's a turkey for every size family 12 to 25 pounders for large family and a new 5 to 10-pound variety for smaller families [Music] with all this good news we in the Mary Gifford kitchen wanted to make sure that the information was made available to every homemaker so we prepared to send out a special service bulletin on the newest in round the year ways to buy and serve Turkey one of the big headlines is that today instead of the long-established way of getting a turkey only partially oven ready in a style known as New York breasts you can buy a turkey that is completely and immediately ready for stuffing and roasting that's the modern quick-frozen table dress turkey and the other headliners are the new Beltsville turkeys weighing only five to ten pounds meal size small family size a new breed especially developed by the united states department of agriculture Experiment Station at Beltsville Maryland specially selected birds as are all these turkeys buttermilk and rain bed expertly completely cleaned the turkeys transparent wrap to keep in Boise Chur all the fine flavor quick-frozen in the larger ones labeled as to the exact kind of bird in our table exact weight shown on every bird table dressed ready for the oven ready at their peak of flavor perfection any time in the year that is news to compare costs between a new york dressed and one of these table dressed turkeys a new york dressed turkey was weighed as it is sold at the market with head and feet on viscera in this is the weight you pay for in such turkeys [Music] this is what you have left to cook here are the discarded parts [Music] the turkey has lost nearly one-fifth of its original weight [Music] when you buy a convenient table dressed bird of the same weight you pay only for the meat you can eat [Music] as you can see here so with a fine value story to feature into our bulletin go notes on how to give quick frozen and table dressed turkeys treatment worthy of their fine quality first how to defrost if you have plenty of time let defrost gradually in your refrigerator in the regular food compartment [Music] allow 24 hours at least or if you're in a hurry put under cool running water for one to three hours [Music] when just pliable the leg can be moved turkeys ready and once defrosted don't refreeze turkeys a delicate food go and cook and eat now defrosted and flavor fresh the turkeys ready for the fighters dressing giblet dressing first remove the parchment wrapped packages of giblets [Music] blazing salted water sufficient to cover [Music] be sure to get giblets from neck cavity [Music] and simmer one hour chopped giblets fine for the dressing and save the broth for both dressing and gravy and here are the ingredients for a magnificently flavorful stuffing this quantity will be right for a 12 pound bird a six pound meal size bird would use just half as much [Music] three quarts of bread cubes are toasted the toasting really adds flavor over the toasted bread cubes pour a mixture made by browning lightly 3/4 cup of chopped celery and 3/4 cup of onion in 3/4 cup of butter or margarine then add 1 tbsp of chopped parsley 1 tbsp of salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 3/4 teaspoon of poultry seasoning the giblets [Music] and 1 and 1/2 cups of the rich giblet broth note especially this should moisten only lightly since the dressing draws moisture from the turkey itself and could become too soggy if too much liquid is added and now news on how to stuff and trust [Music] after rubbing the inside of the bird with one teaspoon of salt stuff the neck cavity first all the wings close against the body pull the neck skin back over the wingtips and skewered us does the body lightly that stuffing is going to swell so give it room [Music] put two or three toothpicks on skewers across the opening [Music] then lace with a cord the way a boot is laced cross the ends wind around the legs and draw the legs close together [Music] tying securely to the tailpiece [Music] for actual roasting the very best way is to put the bird breast down in a v-shape roaster rack thus the sweet fat from the back can melt and run jus soli down through the breast meat brush all over with melted fat halfway through the roasting turn breast up [Music] and there you are turkey ready to roast prepared exactly the same way whether this meal size Beltsville or the larger bird here's a special news tip when the roasting time is given as so much for pound this means so much stuff to wait for an easy way to figure stuffed weight just add approximately 1/4 to the weight shown on the wrapper of your table dress turkey say the bird weighs 13 pounds add 1/4 its weight for stuffing 3 and 1/4 pounds this adds up to 16 and a quarter pounds stuffed weight figure roasting time for this weight it's all here on the chart a 16 pound bird like this 15 to 17 minutes per pound or about four and a half hours for the smaller 6 pound meal size turkey 30 to 35 minutes per pound more about three and a half hours keep the oven low 325 degrees [Music] turkey goes with so many dishes but this dinners say for a Sunday in March we suggest crabapple pickles buttered green beans mashed potatoes a crisp salad [Music] the turkeys out of the oven a meal sized Beltsville five to seven pounds just right for a family of four to five and there it is eating ready [Music] the family's just as ready and there's that bird a delicacy to feature to make any meal festive easy to serve calendar round [Music] picnic time time for a take along potluck dish for picnic or any neighborhood social a dish that fits perfectly turkey rice casserole cube about three cups of the meat of a cold already cooked turkey [Music] have ready boiling five cups of broth made from bones and skin add one cup of raw rice 1/3 cup of chopped celery and 1/3 cup of chopped onion [Music] cook until the rice is soft but not mushy then add 1/4 cup of green pepper 1/4 cup of chopped tomato one and a half to two teaspoons of salt 3/4 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce and [Music] the cube turkey [Music] put it in the casserole edge with 1/4 cup of breadcrumbs mixed with 1 tbsp of melted butter [Music] take one hour in a 350-degree oven the distinctive flavor of Goodrich bites of Turkey combined with all the flavors of the sauce makes this a social star picnic or body a dish that is news that makes news [Music] and now June and here comes the bride [Music] and here's a wedding buffet as beautiful as she is a buffet crowned by wedding cake and a perfect occasion salad turkey almond salad [Music] for family size proportions cubed two cups of cold turkey [Music] add half this quantity one cup a fine red grapes seeded one cup delicately thin slices of green celery and sprinkle with crisply toasted almonds just enough dressing to moisten [Music] turkey with fruit and celery and with the almonds a dish to remember [Music] here we heap it in a bowl lined with spring fresh lettuce it must then be kept well chilled until ready to serve before serving sprinkled with almond [Music] for the wedding buffet put in individual lettuce cups shine up your prettiest silver tray and serve to make a memorable addition to a memorable day so here's to them may their home be graced with many a fine turkey dinner together [Music] July and August summer out-of-doors the hot months of the year months to get out of the kitchen in the hot hours of the day to eat in the cool breeze way out in a patio under the trees now the cold roast turkey stars a fine club breasted turkey to be cooked in the cool of the day served in good generous slices with sweet fresh corn sliced tomatoes and a coulis refreshing salad bowl a new life for the cook new life for heat exhausted appetite [Music] by the way no need to stop if you're serving the turkey cold unstuffed allow less time - only 10 to 12 minutes for power [Music] and cool turkeys good to keep ready in the refrigerator at any time in the same way you can have ever ready that other guests insurance a cold ham [Music] and about midnight there may be an extra meal slipped in for turkey nibblers only i in roast turkey ready in the refrigerator that's eating that's living [Music] time for an impromptu father and son banquet on the side a chance to get together to share a mutual taste [Music] then on a cool October night what better than crisp hot turkey pinwheels with mushroom sauce a happy return engagement recipe for any turkey for these row biscuit dough thin [Music] mix chop turkey with chopped onion and green pepper cooked in a little butter add pepper and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and sufficient cream to moisten [Music] spread over biscuit dough not quite to the edge [Music] rollers for a jelly rule gently [Music] even at the end cut in 1 and 1/2 inch slices [Music] place on a cookie sheet and bake [Music] / this serve your favorite mushroom sauce mouth-watering filling for another meal headliner [Music] and so with the table dressed with frozen turkeys available 365 days in the year that holiday bird has become your turkey any day in the week for in any size hole at any time of the year Sunday or Monday June or January dinner a snack there's a turkey ready and waiting for any occasion meal size bandwidth size for you and now for that time of the year when turkeys are traditionally served Thanksgiving or Christmas once upon a time the only time people serve turkey always popular so put in your order [Music] a golden-brown plump and juicy bird in the best of American tradition the family headliner as it comes to the table in all its glory turkey a dish that adds grace to every cable a dish to be thankful for 365 days in the year [Music] you 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Views: 1,587,208

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Keywords: Culture, food, how, USA

Id: _Cg0TjoEkt0

Length: 21min 17sec (1277 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 26 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/fullyvictorious]

The way she touches everything after just handling raw turkey. They're just asking for salmonella :) great video

[u/DungeonPeaches]

This is a real gem, and includes everything from casserole recipes to wedding salad recipes. I have been trying to make a transcript to post as text, but I can't figure out how. If this is against the rules, I'll remove it.

[u/HurryHurryHurryHurry]

I got so sucked into this video.