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Mary Randolph’s Recipe for Roast Turkey, 1828
Move over, Paula Deen! Generations before the Food Network, the leading lady of Southern cookery was Mary Randolph. Her book, The Virginia Housewife, is considered the first American regional cookbook. The Virginia Housewife was very influential, with multiple editions printed during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Randolph aimed to streamline processes in the kitchen, noting “method is the soul of management.” For all you busy Thanksgiving cooks out there, here’s her methodical approach to roast turkey:
TO ROAST A TURKEY.
Make the forcemeat thus: take the crumb of a loaf of bread, a quarter of a pound of beef suet shred fine, a little sausage meat or veal scraped and pounded very fine, nutmeg, pepper, and salt to your taste; mix it lightly with three eggs, stuff the craw with it, spit it, and lay it down a good distance from the fire, which should be clear and brisk; dust and baste it several times with cold lard; it makes the froth stronger than basting it with the hot out of the dripping pan, and makes the turkey rise better; when it is enough, froth it up as before, dish it, and pour on the same gravy as for the boiled turkey, or bread sauce; garnish with lemon and pickles, and serve it up; if it be of a middle size, it will require one hour and a quarter to roast.
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Have a happy Thanksgiving!
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An electric outage has been scheduled for Ellis Library, on Monday, November 19th, from 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Ellis Library will be closed all day on Monday. This outage is necessary to allow Campus Facilities personnel to upgrade the electrical service to the building. This outage has been scheduled with the building coordinator to minimize disruptions to the activities in the building. In the interest of good communications however, we are alerting others who may have a need to know about this outage. Thank you for your patience as this necessary work is completed. If you have any questions, please contact Campus Facilities – Energy Management, 882-3094.
MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series Presents Emma Jean McKinin on “Nineteenth-Century Humorists in Australia and the U.S.”
November 28, 2012
1 to 2 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade
People in 19th century Australia and the United States often faced many of the same hardships, hazards, and quirks of the environment. In both countries people often coped by laughing. This lecture will look at examples of American and Australian frontier humor, with an eye to their similarities and differences. For more information contact carysn@missouri.edu.
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You’ll see new print books, new electronic books, and new “purchase on demand” titles.
What’s purchase on demand? Due to impending shortfalls in our collection budget, we are investigating new ways to ensure that the books we purchase are needed and used by our campus community.
In the MERLIN library catalog, you may run across some titles that say: “Request the library order this book.” You’ll be asked to login with your Username so we can notify you once the book has been purchased and is available. We expect that most books will arrive within 2-3 weeks.
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What is Open Access?
Have you ever wondered just what Open Access really is? Here’s a video (8 minutes long) http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-explained-by-phd-comics describing it.