Take pen in hand or the telephone and get Mrs. Agnes Hose, Shagroy Farm, Millertown, New York, to ship along the novelty of the season, a smoked turkey breast, ＄4.75 for a pound, and each breast tipping the scales at three pounds and a bit over. But it's every slice white meat and that's what you want, isn't it, when there is a party in the offing?
These turkey breasts are not from the ordinary run of turkey world birds. These come from a flock of broad breasted Bronzes raised in pampered ease in the most modern of houses. At the Hose Farm in the Berkshires you find turkey city. The birds are farm raised from the egg to the smokehouse to the canning retort. For ten years Mrs. Hose has been developing this flock which represents one of the largest turkey ventures in New England. She had 7,000 birds this year ready for holiday sale.
Since the beginning she has been breeding for quality, for broad meaty breasts. Take a look at that smoked specimen. It's a breast really broad, broad as two hands and deep as two fists, a solid chunk of delight. The texture of the meat is fine, it is tender. You can slice the creamy rose-tinted flesh thin as gossamer. The meat is delicately smoked; it has been delicately spiced and herb-tinctured in a cure sweetened of honey. It is velvet to the tongue.
There are four canned products in the Shagroy line, each as luxurious in its way as the smoked breast. Sliced turkey meat for one, this the unsmoked, but running sweet juices. There is a smoked turkey pâté made of meat and giblets. Two soups for your choice, one is plain turkey soup loaded with meat, both the dark and the light. The other is smoked turkey mushroom soup, a gorgeous creation. The base for this is a combination of the broth of smoked turkey and the broth of turkey natural, with smoked turkey meat coarsely ground and very large bits of mushroom, a little onion and butter, a little flour for the thickening, a blending of spices and seasonings and all laced through with sherry.
The turkey breast or whole turkeys or the canned items may be ordered direct from the farm. The kitchen offers a variety of basket gifts also, from ＄3 to ＄30. Write to Mrs. Hose and ask for her catalogue listing the selections and prices. If you live in New York City the complete line is assembled at George Shaffer's Market, 61st Street and Madison Avenue. Prices as follows: Turkey breasts around three pounds at ＄4.75 a pound; turkey mushroom soup 10 ½ ounces, 59 cents; turkey soup, the meat unsmoked, ten ounces, 45 cents; smoked turkey pâté, six ounces, 89 cents; fresh turkey slices, dark and light meat, six ounces, 98 cents.
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