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– Once cooked, remove turkey from oven and let rest
for 20 minutes, reserve all drippings for gravy
– Carve turkey and serve
TURKEY PAN GRAVY
2 cups turkey drippings
1 /3 cup flour
1 /3 cup butter or margarine, softened
3 /4 tsp poultry seasoning
salt and white pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS
– Combine flour and butter, set aside
– Strain and skim fat from turkey drippings
– Measure drippings and pour into medium pot
– While heavily whisking, add flour and butter
mixture into drippings
– Bring to a simmer for 2 minutes over medium to
low heat
– Add seasonings

Sticky Date Pudding with Toffee Sauce – Using an electric mixer, cream together butter and
sugar, adding the eggs one at a time, allowing eggs
PUDDING
2 /2 cups pitted, and coarsely chopped dates to be fully incorporated before adding the next.
1
1 /4 cups water Scrape down bowl as needed.
3
4 tsp baking soda – Gradually add the flour mixture, scraping bowl as
2 cups all purpose flour needed.
3 tsp baking powder – Stir in the date mixture by hand.
1 /3 tsp ground ginger – Pour batter into greased pan, and place into
1 /3 cups unsalted butter at room temperature roasting pan. Pour the boiling water into the
1 /3 cups sugar roasting pan until it is half way up the side of baking
1
3 eggs pan.
– Place into preheated oven, bake for 20 minutes and
SAUCE then reduce heat to 325 F and bake for additional
3 /4 cups unsalted butter 35 minutes or until a knife inserted comes out
2 cups brown sugar clean. Serve hot.
1 cup whipping cream
1 /2 tsp vanilla FOR SAUCE:
– While pudding is baking, melt butter in a saucepan.
INSTRUCTIONS Stir in brown sugar and cook while stirring
– Preheat oven to 350ºF. occasionally until dissolved.
– Place dates and water in a sauce pan, cover and – Add whipping cream and vanilla, increase the heat
bring to a boil. Remove lid and let boil for 5 and boil gently, uncovered, stirring occasionally
minutes. until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Serve
– Remove from heat, stir in baking soda and let stand warm on top of warm pudding.
for 20 minutes.
– Meanwhile, lightly grease a 9x13 baking pan with VARIATIONS
A strawberry sauce can add a flavourful twist to this
butter.
– Set aside a roasting pan for the water bath, large holiday classic. Combine 3 cups of frozen strawberries, 1
cup sugar and 1 tbsp of lemon juice in sauce pot. Cook until
enough to hold the baking pan AND fit a few litres liquidy while occasionally stirring. Strain through a fine
of boiling water.
– In a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir flour, baking mesh strainer into a different saucepan and bring to boil
until thick enough to spoon over pudding.
powder and ginger.

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