Local students discuss how to cook a turkey

It has become a tradition at the Mountain Home News every Thanksgiving to ask second- and third-grade students in local schools to write stories about how to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner.

The newspaper prints the recipes on "How to Cook a Turkey" for our readers' enjoyment just as they were turned in to us, complete with the students' current expertise in spelling and grammar. It's not recommended that anyone actually follow these recipes, but they give a clue as to how children perceive the work that goes into the nation's celebration of family and thanksgiving.

The recipes, as prepared by students at East Elementary School this year, are available in the Nov. 23 edition of the Mountain Home News.