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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #18 on: Monday 24 December 07 02:13 GMT (UK) »
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.
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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #19 on: Monday 24 December 07 02:32 GMT (UK) »
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  :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

I was shocked  :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ How unprecedented...how outlandish. What a concept  :o

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  ;D

Happy holidays everyone  :)

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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #20 on: Monday 24 December 07 03:53 GMT (UK) »
Mab.

That's the way I always Cook My Birds!  ;) :P :P :P
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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #21 on: Monday 24 December 07 04:04 GMT (UK) »
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o 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....

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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #22 on: Monday 24 December 07 08:44 GMT (UK) »
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?

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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #23 on: Monday 24 December 07 10:16 GMT (UK) »
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.
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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #24 on: Monday 24 December 07 10:26 GMT (UK) »
Here is the first verse of the original, by George R Sims

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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 )

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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #25 on: Monday 24 December 07 11:27 GMT (UK) »
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!
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Re: Christmas traditions
« Reply #26 on: Monday 24 December 07 11:28 GMT (UK) »
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
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