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Turducken
| Origin | Winter Camp XXXVI (2012) |
| The Story | Turducken is a dish created by deboning a chicken, a duck, and most of a turkey. The three birds are then placed one inside the other with a layer of dressing between them. At Winter Camp XXXVI, we decided to pursue making our own turducken. The first complication came while shopping -- Meijer had only one duck and we fet we would need three. Luckily, a local butcher shop was able to satisfy our duck needs. At Camp, Steve Donohue and Doug Wilson set to work on creating the turducken under the watchful eye of Kristie Donohue and several other campers. The first difficulty was that the birds were still partially frozen. The second was that neither Steve nor Doug had actually ever deboned a bird before. After about 90 minutes, they were able to debone the 9 birds (the turkey got to keep its legs) and wrap them with the requisite dressing. The bird were placed into roasters and cooked. The recipe probably didn't have enough dressing, so the layers were pretty thin and the birds were put in the normal way, which was upside down for turducken. The final product ended up being tasty and unusual, the two key requirements for a dish like that. Doug and Steve promptly suggested that Turducken be added to the Historic Banquet list, a tactic often employed to limit the chances of making a difficult item again. |
| Veracity | True. |
Last updated by Steve D. on 2021-09-10 22:53:14.
