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730 Smoky Valley Road, Lindsborg, Ks 67456
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730 Smoky Valley Road, Lindsborg, Ks 67456 |
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How we test our recipes: Cooking Heritage Style Things to Remember about your Heritage Turkey. Good Shepherd Heritage Birds are the real thing. It’s the same popular bird used between 1850 and 1950 .The original and traditional bird used for holiday feast. It is the same bird you will find in the American Book of Standards. It wasn't until the development of the large breasted supermarket bird of today that the Heritage bird declined in popularity. With that loss was the delicious subtle flavor that only a Heritage bird can provide. You'll find our Heritage bird has longer legs, more flavorful dark meat with just the right amount of white meat that hasn't lost its flavor also. History Many flavorful recipes have gone to the way side to make room for fast food and quick side steps for the busy consumer of today. Unfortunately what have been lost are the wonderful taste, texture, and smell of the home cooking of yesteryear. The methods of cookery used by renowned chefs and our grandmothers were quite often very close. Direct rules were quite simple, to effectively bring out the flavor that was naturally there or to merely enhance it. Most all ethnic culture would add their own seasoning but the rule remains the same: Keep it simple and flavorful. There is no other smell than that of a heritage bird being cooked for the traditional Turkey Thanksgiving Dinner, of Grandmas Sunday Baked Chicken or that of a hearty bowl of Turkey and Dumpling Stew. As for the taste, well those that remember know exactly what I am speaking of. Part of the goals of Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch is, for those who remember, to bring back those wonderful taste experiences and for those who have only heard of their story an opportunity to taste exactly what we reminisce about. Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch strives to produce the exact heritage turkey and chicken of yesteryear. We feel that by consumer purchase it serves a two fold process. First you have the opportunity of experiencing the wonderful flavor and secondly we are able to increase the population of these fine birds to insure their preservation Coming from second generation stock German back ground on my Mothers side (Longhofer, and Litke) and English from my fathers side (Townstead and Pope) hearty home cooking has always been a passion. I was privileged to receive recipes handed down not only from family members but close friends. Many of the recipes have rested in old cook books or were scribbled on paper, now stained with age and rarely used by subsequent family members. In establishing a test Kitchen for Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch I was able to sift though the old books and papers and find some very interesting recipes. Each one selected embraces the old methods used to create superb, tasty cookery. In doing so there is one thing that is very clear to me as a chef; Grandma knew exactly what she was doing and knew how to please her hungry family. Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch Testing Kitchens Cooking Techniques: The heritage bird of the past was able to live free range and forage for its food as nature had intended. By doing so its muscles were strong and less fat was created on the body. With its leaner body came the need to use methods to break down the lean meat to make it more eatable and in doing so created a more full-bodied flavor. |
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