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\"\"<\/a>The ambitious cook can substitute a platter of turducken for the traditional turkey on the groaning Thanksgiving table.\u00a0\u00a0 This labor-intensive dish made famous by New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme consists of a boned chicken inside in a boned duck inside a boned turkey with the empty spaces crammed with figs, bread stuffing, or a sausage force meat.\u00a0 The beast is roasted until glistening brown.\"\"<\/a>For those of you who are wondering what on earth this has to do with the nursery rhyme \u201cThe House that Jack Built,\u201d don\u2019t sign off. \u00a0\u00a0Many of the rhymes we consider the province of childhood are repeated by lowlifes and servants in plays, bawdy songs, and nasty political satires before the publication of the first nursery rhyme collections in the 1740s.\"\"<\/a>The earliest printed appearance of \u201cThe House that Jack Built\u201d was in John Newbery\u2019s Nurse Truelove\u2019s New-Year\u2019s Gift<\/em> (1750) according to Iona and Peter Opie\u2019s Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. <\/em>\u00a0 But the Opies\u2019 work is now over fifty years old and it is possible to search digital copies of 18th<\/sup> and 19th- <\/sup>century books, poems, magazines, etc. for new sightings.\u00a0 Recently I ran a search for \u00a0the accumulative rhyme\u201cThe House that Jack Built\u201d and I got a hit in a 1707 translation of the Spanish novel Estevanillo Gonzales, the Most Arch and Comical of Scoundrels<\/em>.\u00a0 I was sure I had hit paydirt because the \u201chero\u201d was a lowlife and lowlifes speak colloquially.<\/p>\n

In one adventures, the rascally Estevanillo\u00a0 was hired as a chef on the strength of his bragging that he was the best cook in the army.\u00a0 To show his chops, he directions for making for \u201cImperial Stuffed Meat,\u201d an even more daunting version of turducken than Prudhomme\u2019s.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy, he tells his audience:<\/p>\n

It is just like the Tale the Children tell of, This is the Stick that Beat the Dog, the Dog that bit the Cat, \"\"<\/a> that Jack Built; for this Egg is in the Pidgeon, the Pidgeon is to be put into a Partridge, the Partridge into a Pheasant, the Pheasant into a Pullet, the Pullet into a Capon, the Capon into a Turkey, the Turkey into a Kid, the Kid into a Sheep, the Sheep into a Calf, and the Calf into a Cow, all these Creatures are to be Pull\u2019d, Flea\u2019d [i.e. flayed], and Larded, except the Cow, which is to have her Hide on, and as they are thrust one into another like a Nest of Boxes.<\/em><\/p>\n

All it needs is four hours\u2019 roasting in a covered trench, he says, and it can be served forth. Incidentally, the 1707 recipe is rather similar to the one called the \u201cRoti sans pareil\u201d [ an incomparable roast] in the 1807 Almanach des gourmands<\/em>, which today\u2019s food historians cite as the earliest reference to the dish.\u00a0 \u00a0But curiously enough, the 1707 edition was the only one of all the reprints I found to refer to \u201cThe House that Jack Built\u201d\u2026\u00a0 Another strange occurrence in the history of nursery rhymes\u2026\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The ambitious cook can substitute a platter of turducken for the traditional turkey on the groaning Thanksgiving table.\u00a0\u00a0 This labor-intensive dish made famous by New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme consists of a boned chicken inside in a boned duck inside a boned turkey with the empty spaces crammed with figs, bread stuffing, or a sausage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107016,155006,155004,98828,155007,125,155008,155009,155010,155005,155011,155012],"tags":[10243,25527,594,3519,5521,8831,155013],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-328708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-18th-century","category-almanach-des-gourmands","category-and-diet","category-drink","category-estavanillo-gonzales","category-food","category-history-of-nursery-rhymes","category-house-that-jack-built","category-nurse-trueloves-new-years-gift","category-nursery-rhymes","category-the-most-arch-and-comical-of-scoundrels","category-turducken-recipes","tag-built","tag-earliest","tag-house","tag-jack","tag-recipe","tag-reference","tag-turducken"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Earliest Recipe for Turducken in the First Known Reference to \u201cThe House that Jack Built\u201d - 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