I Survived Making an Entire Julia Child Thanksgiving Feast in One Day

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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