centerpiece in Victorian Christmas dinner was either a goose or a turkey and as the century went on Turkey's become more popular after all you can feed more people from a turkey than you can from a goose this is Eliezer Acton's recipe for stuffing the Christmas turkey unlike many recipes it's a meat-free stuffing she calls it a forcemeat a chance is a dry dough bread crumbs and the time mantra what a spices half a teaspoon of pepper the cayenne pepper and again about half a teaspoon salt say a teaspoon full and grated nutmeg now the lemon rind butter next I'm going to put the latte and work it through my home now the last thing to go into our stuffing to get our egg yolks to bind it all together when it goes into the turkey it is a very dry mix that means that the breadcrumbs are eager to draw out and absorb all the juices from the turkey just wet enough to hold together when you squeeze it the recipe task put it in the breasts so the next thing I'm going to do is just use my fingers between the skin and the breasts now the forcemeat can just go into that space now I need to prepare it for roasting so let's start we're trying to tie off if I was just going to other and roadsters turkey I really need to do very much trusting just hold stuff on you but this is going to be open roasted in front of the fire which means it's going to dangle on stream and twist and turn now with butter on the picture obviously is against the breast it's going to help to keep everything moist just there's a couple of bits of string to hold the paper in place there we go one turkey trussed up you started off just by putting a big hole over and as the butter melts and runs down the bird it'll collect a little basin at the bottom and I'll be able to scoop it up pour it back on again now but you'll wind up my bottle Jack piece of Clockwork that just turns the meat round for me for some way and then back the other more about to do this is a Victorian Christmas time to find the full recipe visit the website at BBC co dot u K for word / Victorian Christmas