Beyond turducken with a ten bird roast

by Nicole Weston, Posted Dec 27th 2005 @ 9:04AM

Turducken is a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey and is becoming more and more popular at the holiday table. The layers are often rounded out with a hearty measure of stuffing, so it's not a roast for the faint of appetite. But what do you call an 18-pound turkey stuffed with 9 other birds? For now, it's simply called a ten bird roast or, as chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall proclaimed it, "one of the most spectacular and delicious roasts you can lay before your loved ones at Yuletide".
Apparently, the roast has its roots in medieval traditions as well as in an early 19th century French tradition of having a feast with 17 kinds of birds. The turkey is stuffed with goose, duck, mallard, guinea fowl, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon and woodcock (go-du-ma-gu-chi-phea-par-pige-ock?) and carries a £160 price tag (about $277). It, like the turducken, also contains a fair amount of sausage, bacon and stuffing. Another roast gaining popularity is the unfortunately named "gooducken" - a goose stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken.

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12-27-2005 @10:01AM Diane Holdgate said... OK, so maybe this is a silly question, and maybe people who have had one of these things already know the awnser, but WHAT ABOUT THE BONES???
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12-27-2005 @5:01PM John Hathaway said... Answer to Diane H.

The duck and checken are completely de-boned. The turkey has all but the wing, leg and thigh bones removed.

Cheers,

JH
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