It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds

I've heard of turducken - the dish where a turkey is stuffed with a duck which has been stuffed with a chicken, but never anything as elaborate as what follows.  More than a bit over-the-top for my taste, but interesting to read about.  From Great Britain, inspired by an old Tudor tradition:

...TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall [created] a ten-bird roast on his show two years ago.

He stuffed an 18lb turkey with a goose, duck, mallard, guinea fowl, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon and woodcock - producing a remarkable Russian doll-like dish.

But now his effort, inspired by recipes dating from Tudor times, has been dwarfed by a behemoth containing no fewer than 48 birds of 12 different species.

This massive roast, the proud creation of Devon farmer Anne Petch, weighs almost four stone (more than most airlines' baggage allowance), costs £665, and has enough meat to serve 125 people.

It contains about 50,000 calories and takes more than eight hours to cook in an industrialducksized oven.

Anne, who runs the Heal Farm shop near Kings Nympton, said: "The True Love Roast has a bird for each of the 12 days of Christmas.

"It uses skinless breast meat from several birds of each species with flavours that work well together."

The roast contains turkey, goose, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon squab, Aylesbury duck, Barbary duck, poussin, guinea fowl, mallard-and quail with herb and fruit stuffings.

Anne added: "It takes about 45 minutes to build the roast. However, it takes at least three hours before that to bone the birds and another couple of days to make all the stuffings.

"We've been making smaller multibird roasts for a while, but I wanted something with a real wow factor.

"It was only when I was halfway through the first prototype that I realised what a crazy idea it was. But I still think that next year we'll have something even more spectacular, perhaps a 21-bird roast.

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Comments

[soccerdad]

Pardong my crudeness, but would you eat something with a name starting with "Turd...?"

[Patti]

Oh, now I feel so Inadequate as a cook! ;)

And I must also add that I think Soccerdad has a valid point.

[Gail]

Well, if I can't interest anyone in TURDucken, how about a cow pie or a rectum cookie?

[soccerdad]

Gee thanks. There goes lunch.
Gwaaack. (Don Martin sound effect?)