I Survived Making an Entire Julia Child Thanksgiving Feast in One Day @antichef
I Survived Making an Entire Julia Child Thanksgiving Feast in One Day  @antichef
Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
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I assemble a Julia Child Thanksgiving feast finding all the holiday recipes I could find from The Way To Cook cookbook. Best & worst of all, I pulled this off in one day, and survived to tell the tale.

00:00 The brief
02:18 Pastry dough
03:45 Trade
05:00 Stuffing
09:34 Pumpkin pie
17:05 Prepping the turkey
21:42 Cranberry relish
23:58 Mashed potatoes & carrots
28:03 Final assembly
33:04 Order up!!

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Ingredients:

Traditional Roast Turkey:
- turkey (I used 12.5 lb and roasted for 4 hours)
- salt
- cooking oil - I used olive oil
1 cup each chopped onions and carrots (I forgot)

Savory Sausage and Crouton Stuffing (8 cups):
- 2 quarts diced homemade-type white breade
- 1 pound sausage meat
- 4 or more tb butter
- 3 cups onions diced
- 3 cups celery diced
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- salt, pepper, sage (I used thyme too, but I have no idea why)
- more butter if you please ;)

Gravy:
- 3 tb turkey roasting fat skimmed from pan (If you messed this up like me, I used 1/4 cup butter)
- 1/4 cup flour
- 3 cups turkey storkc
- 1 cup dry white wine or dry white vermouth
- degreased turkey roasting juices
- salt and pepp
- 2 to 3 tb butter, optional

Cranberry Relish:
(I halved this!!!)
- 3 pounds (3 quarts) cranberries
- the zest of 3 oranges
- the zest of 1 lemon
- 3 cups sugar (1 cup pulverized with the zests; 2 cups for simmering)
- 1 1/2 cups orange juice
- juice of the lemon
- 2 tsp grated ginger

Glazed Carrots:
(6 servings)
- 6 to 9 carrots 8" long cut into long wedges
- salt
- 3 tb butter (I used 5 tb of butter because I can't read good)
- 1 1/2 tsp sugar

Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- 4 or 5 large "baking" potatoes (I used russet)
- salt
- 1/2 or so milk and/or cream heated
- 2 or more tb softened butter
- white pepper

- head of garlic
-1/2 cup cream

Fluffy Pumpkin Pie (enough for 2 pies):
- chilled pastry crust (I doubled this!) (1 1/2 cup ap flour, 1/2 cup cake flour, 1 tsp salt (or add 1/4 tsp salt and 2 tb sugar if you want it sweet!), 6 oz (1 1/2 stick) chilled diced butter, 1/4 cup (2 oz) chilled vegetable shortening) and 1/2 cup chilled water (be careful with this step!)
- 3 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tb molasses
- 3 tb bourbon whiskey or dark rum (optional of course)
- 3 tsp of each cinnamon and ground ginger (I said TB in the video and I am wrong!)
- 1/4 tsp each nutmeg and ground cloves
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 1/4 cup milk
&
- 5 cups egg white
- whipped cream for garnish
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