Cooking in the West

One of my favorite things to do when I am visiting my rural schools during the holiday season is to ask the younger students to help me write instructions on how to cook a turkey. The following instructions were given by the two youngest students at Melville School.

Nodin Selke in first grade gave the following cooking directions:

Get a million pound turkey. Take the turkey out of the wrapper and put it in a pot. Put salt and pepper and garlic on it. Cook it in the oven for 50 minutes at 200 degrees. Take it out and stuff the stuffing in the armpits of the turkey. Serve it.

Torsten Hanson in t...