Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 85
cloud enveloped it which penetrated to thedining-room. The great mountain of breast was blistered andbrowned with half an inch of aromatic dressing. No tough, yellowpin-feathered legs stuck up before you, but lovely, bulging drum-sticks, dripping with gravy, and folded together in peaceful… … Those ideal roast-turkey days took their flight when the new-fashioned bakers, and ranges, and cooking stoves, stuck their uglyfaces into the kitchen. Anthracite coal can never charm forth thesubtle qualities and evanescent flavors which lurk within the sa-cred precincts of this wonderful bird. It…
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