Salute to the Turducken

A Turducken is a dish consisting of a partilly de-boned turkey stuffed with a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed with a small de-boned chicken. The thoracic cavity of the chicken and the rest of the gaps are stuffed, sometimes with a highly seasoned breadcrumb mixture or sausage meat, although some versions have a different stuffing for each bird.


Farm creates $943.50 multi-bird roast
A Devon farm has concocted a 12-bird roast that takes 10 hours to
cook and can feed up to 125 people.

The roast weighs 55 lbs. and is believed to be one of the biggest multi-bird meals in the country.

Anne Petch, of Heal Farm in Kings Nympton, said they wanted to make a a dish with a "wow factor". The $934.50 creation consists of turkey on the outside, goose, chicken, pheasant, three ducks, poussin, guinea fowl, partridge, pigeon squab and quail. Ms. Petch said the True Love Roast had a bird for each of the 12 days of Christmas. It takes two people to lift.

"Crazy Idea"

"We've been making smaller multi-bird roasts for a while, but I wanted something with a real wow factor." "It was only when I was halfway through the first prototype that I realized what a crazy idea it was." She said they were aiming for a 21-bird roast for the next year. Multi-bird roast are a centuries-old style of cooking that is becoming increasingly popular. The supermarket Waitrose said demand for their $283.00 four-bird roast was up 50% this year.