SC - Deep-fried Turkey? OOP

[Elaine Koogler]

Two thoughts:

1)  Another mixture to try injecting is a mixture of maple syrup, bourbon and
butter.  We've used this to smoke turkeys and the result is absolutely heavenly.
So I suspect it would be equally wonderful with a fried turkey.
2)  Instead of trying to use stuffing, why not do it southern style...my mother
never made stuffing.  Instead, she used broth from boiling the giblets, drippings
from the bird (which of course you wouldn't have here), and/or ready-made chicken
broth to make cornbread dressing (cornbread, stale white bread, celery, onions,
eggs and broth), which was then baked in a pan in the oven with a pan of water on
the shelf below.  It's really wonderful...

Kiri

Orlaith wrote:

> Much to my regret we had deep fried turkey this year.  My uncle's girlfriend
> decided to do it to give my mom a break (she always does the turkey at
> Thanksgiving and Christmas).  I appreciated the thought but wish we could have
> done it some other way.  Not only was the turkey different but she did not use
> our time tested stuffing recipe (the one handed down from my Grandmother).
> The stuffing came out so dry and the cook ended up throwing the leftovers
> away.
>
> The only recipes that Elaine had seen for the turkey involved cayanne (sp?)
> pepper and lots of salt.  Since I was raised in a house with very little spice
> the turkey came out WAY to spicy for my taste (minded the half a salt mine
> used more than the pepper actually but hated the pepper).  The wind interfered
> with the flame on the burner so it ended up taking more than 1 1/2 hours to
> cook the bird to the right temp, which killed the drumsticks and wings.  The
> turkey was black a 1/4 inch below the skin.
>
> While we are willing to try the deep-frying thing again we are going to try
> either orange juice or chicken broth for the injection and a smaller bird
> (everything we read said use a 12 lb bird and we did a 20 lb.  However I just
> ask that we do it as a non-holiday dinner.  I don't mind trying a different
> side dish on occasion but fooling with both the turkey and the stuffing on
> Thanksgiving left me planning on cooking a turkey breast in the next couple of
> weeks.
>
> Orlaith of Storvik
>
> Cats humor us because they know their ancestors ate ours.
>
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