Recipe Baking: THANKSGIVING DINNER

    The soup could be the first or second course. Use 1 can tomato soup, 1 can chicken broth, 1 can beef broth. Simmer a short time. Ladle into bowls and top with a spoonful of sour cream which has been mixed with grated orange rind. --MAIN COURSE:--

Stuffed turkey with giblet gravy. Gelatin salad with any fruit or chopped vegetable mixed in. over each serving of salad, place a turkey cut from jellied cranberry sauce. Use a turkey shaped cookie cutter. --DESSERT:--

Why not have a variety: Hot Mince pie with hot Brandy Sauce. Use brandy extract for flavor. Southern Pecan Pie Pumpkin Pie with turkey made from cookie dough on top of each serving. Place each turkey in place on pie before you put pie into the oven. Apple Pie with turkeys cut from slices of Cheddar cheese on top of each serving. English Plum Pudding served with hard sauce flavored with sherry and brandy extract. Cherries Jubilee served over vanilla ice cream. --\h DRESSING FOR THE TURKEY: (18 TO 24
POUNDS)

3 (1 lb.) loaves of white bread,
toasted on both sides and cubed, not
too large
2 c. chopped onions
2 c. chopped celery
1 tbsp. sage, more or less, depending
on taste
Approximately 1 tbsp. salt or Lawry's
seasoned salt and pepper

Melt 1 1/2 pounds of butter or margarine and mix entire ingredients well. Season turkey well inside and out before stuffing. After you have sewed or laced up the opening of the cavity, cover entire turkey with melted butter and baste frequently with melted butter, paprika and Morgen David Concord Wine. If you put the turkey in a paper bag and staple it shut then baste well before. It will brown very nicely. Turkey may be stuffed at 11 p.m. and let it roast all night at 225 degrees for 8 to 9 hours. The turkey will brown nicely in the bag. The drippings will filter out into the bottom of the pan and you can make a delicious gravy and add the ground or finely chopped giblets. Any excess dressing can be baked in another pan or foil. (This is the kind of dressing everyone will always want to see on the table each Thanksgiving Day.)

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