Christmas traditions

[geniecolgan]

Our variation on the same theme was Boxing Day....

Cold Turkey and ham with Branston Pickles naturally and....

Bubble n Squeak made from the left-over Brussels and mash spuds.

[forthefamily]

We have a holiday in North America called Thanksgiving...and this year I tried something different with my turkey. I heard a talk show on the radio and the host said to cook the turkey breast side down 

I was shocked  How unprecedented...how outlandish. What a concept 

Well I tried it. Why hadn't I thought of this before I said to myself. Think about it...the drippings and juices flow downwards.......... Into the turkey breast. It was awesome. So juicy. Now it's a new holiday tradition in my house  Well any holiday that includes turkey 

Happy holidays everyone 

mab

[Pegasuss]

Mab.

That's the way I always Cook My Birds! 

[forthefamily]

There should be a cooking thingy on Rootschat and then I would have known you did that ...However...hmmmm...

I had never heard of it before...but I will certainly cook all my fowl likewise in the future and I'm sure I  may regret saying that....

mab

[dollylee]

This may be an odd question.....but I don't cook chicken or turkey often.

Wouldn't having the juices flow down into the breast make a bread stuffing more greasy?

dollylee

[aghadowey]

I cook my turkey 'upside down' for the first 3 hours and then flip it over (takes 2 people) for the remaider and comes out lovely and moist but I don't do any stuffing in the bird as I cook the turkey a few weeks before Christmas, freeze the meat in portions and just take out what's needed. This year only 3 of us are having turkey so there should be enough to last all week.

[Berlin-Bob]

Here is the first verse of the original, by George R Sims

It is Christmas Day in the workhouse,
And the cold, bare walls are bright
With garlands of green and holly,
Ad the place is a pleasant sight;
For with clean-washed hands and faces,
In a long and hungry line
The paupers sit at the table,
For this is the hour they dine.

the whole poem (narrative) and a short article about Sims can be found - appropriately - on Peter Higginbotham's Workhouse site
htttp://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?lit/xmasday.shtml

If you put christmas day in the workhouse in a search engine, you will also find some of the many parodies, too.
(for instance: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7684 )

Merry Christmas,
Bob

[stoney]

Our variation on the same theme was Boxing Day....

Cold Turkey and ham with Branston Pickles naturally and....

Bubble n Squeak made from the left-over Brussels and mash spuds.

Same in our house - my daughter insists we have to cook far more veg than we need on the 25th, just so she can enjoy bubble'n'squeak on Boxing day!

[ricoba]

WE WERE TOLD

IT WAS XMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE A ND EVERY ONE WAS FEELING MERRY
SO MARY GOT UP AND LEFT

BEST WISHES TO ALL