{"id":5796,"date":"2010-10-09T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T21:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2010-10-09T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T21:18:31","slug":"weekend-tangent-my-great-grandmothers-veal-turkey-stuffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Tangent: My great grandmother’s veal turkey stuffing recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0This is some serious business for me, although a tangent for others (but not so as Canadian Thanksgiving is mere days away; American readers, stock up!).<\/p>\n

This here’s a family recipe, handed down through now four generations, for the thing I miss the most about the US: \u00a0turkey stuffing. \u00a0As any aficionado of turkeys knows, if the stuffing is subpar, then the turkey also comes out dry and bland (this is one of the reasons why so many Japanese I believe find turkey\u00a0underwhelming, and don’t know what the fuss is about).<\/p>\n

I grew up on this, but since I can’t get it here (turkeys cooked here are often killed by a soy sauce, not a butter, base; they are smoked up here in Hokkaido rather than baked as well, which to me is underwhelming), there’s no reason why I shouldn’t propagate this recipe worldwide. \u00a0It’s very simple. \u00a0The only thing you have to do is convert Imperial to metric, and Bob’s Your Uncle. \u00a0From my great grandmother Appolonia Mendis Cypcar, born in Southern Poland, emigrated to the US at the turn of the 20th Century, survivor of one of the world’s biggest nautical disasters (the capsizing of The Eastland in Chicago harbor on July 24, 1915<\/a>), survivor of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (my great grandfather Mendis did not survive it), survivor of the Great Depression, who died at the age of 96 in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

APPOLONIA MENDIS CYPCAR’S TURKEY STUFFING
\nFrom Arudou Debito, great grandson, Debito.org<\/strong>
\n(for a 13-14 lb turkey)<\/p>\n

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  1. 1 lb ground veal<\/li>\n
  2. 1\/2 box of saltines (box 1 1b size) ground coarsely<\/li>\n
  3. 1 pint whole milk<\/li>\n
  4. 1\/2 lb butter<\/li>\n
  5. 4 eggs beaten<\/li>\n
  6. salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    And that’s it. Mix together and stuff family turkey as normal. \u00a0Enjoy. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Tokyo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In honor of upcoming Canadian (and soon American) Thanksgiving:
    \nAPPOLONIA MENDIS CYPCAR’S TURKEY STUFFING
    \nFrom Arudou Debito, great grandson, Debito.org
    \n(for a 13-14 lb turkey)<\/p>\n

    1 lb ground veal
    \n1\/2 box of saltines (box 1 1b size) ground coarsely
    \n1 pint whole milk
    \n1\/2 lb butter
    \n4 eggs beaten
    \nsalt and pepper to taste<\/p>\n

    It’s the taste I miss most from the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-history","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}