{"id":1642,"date":"2016-12-24T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2016-12-22T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T01:46:09","slug":"roast-scrub-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2016\/12\/roast-scrub-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Roast Scrub Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas is tomorrow, which means food prep\u00a0is in full swing. Is anyone\u00a0planning on having roast scrub turkey on the day? Find out more from\u00a0Barbara Santich’s<\/em> discussion of fauna-eating practices in\u00a0<\/em>Bold Palates<\/a>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n

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There wasn’t\u00a0any hesitation in accepting wild duck and other\u00a0game birds in the same way as kangaroo\u2014indeed, wild birds often\u00a0took the place of scarce domesticated poultry. In 1794 John Macarthur\u00a0employed a game shooter with a team of dogs at his property, Elizabeth\u00a0Farm, supplying wild ducks and kangaroos for the dinner table; \u2018averaging\u00a0one week with another\u2019, he wrote, \u2018these dogs do not kill less\u00a0than three hundred pounds weight\u2019. Knopwood regularly shot quail, pigeons and ducks in Tasmania. The intrepid Lady Franklin, wife of the\u00a0governor of Tasmania, gladly ate a variety of local fauna on her travels\u00a0overland from Port Philip Bay to Sydney in 1839, while Katherine\u00a0Kirkland relished native fowl as a change from the monotony of\u00a0mutton. Mrs Maclurcan, manager of the Criterion hotel in Townsville\u00a0at the end of the 19th century, similarly considered native fowl as substitutes\u00a0for European species. In her 1898 cookbook, Mrs Maclurcan\u2019s\u00a0Cookery Book: A Collection of Practical Recipes, Specially Suitable for\u00a0Australia<\/em>, she gave a recipe for roast scrub turkey\u2014\u2018a small bird, not\u00a0much larger than a wild duck, with a breast like a pheasant and flesh\u00a0as white. I have often served it as pheasant and people have not known\u00a0the difference\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Christmas is tomorrow, which means food prep\u00a0is in full swing. Is anyone\u00a0planning on having roast scrub turkey on the day? Find out more from\u00a0Barbara Santich’s discussion of fauna-eating practices in\u00a0Bold Palates\u00a0\u2026     There wasn’t\u00a0any hesitation in accepting wild duck … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,107],"tags":[511,68,507,509,512,510,508],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-extract","tag-australian-food","tag-barbara-santich","tag-bold-palates","tag-christmas","tag-gastronomy","tag-roast-lunch","tag-scrub-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-qu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}