CHAPTER XVI 



THE SECRET OF COOKING THE TURKEY 



OF MATTERS with which the average 

 sportsman has to do, there is none so 

 little understood as that of cooking 

 game, and especially the turkey. Thousands of 

 sportsmen go into the hunting camp expecting to 

 play the role of cook without the knowledge of 

 the simplest requirements and as a consequence 

 are in perpetual trouble and disappointment on 

 account of the blunders that are the inevitable 

 results of lack of information. In the solitude of 

 the forest the hunter should not be at loss for 

 methods of cooking even if he has but a frying- 

 pan; a log for a table; his plate, a section of bark 

 or large leaf. 



The turkey is supposed to be a bird of dry 

 meat, but this is so only when all juices are 

 boiled or baked out of it. The usual manner 

 in which turkeys are cooked is by roasting or 



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