[Sca-cooks] Re: OOP - Turkey, again!

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 04:32 AM 11/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I can tell that I left out an important point. My turkeys are _never_ dry.
>In fact, it seems almost as if they, well, steam cook rather than bake.
>That's why they fall apart. Am I just weird? No one else has this problem?

Are you doing the foil-wrapped or the bird-in-the-bag? You need to open it
to brown sooner. And so you have the legs trussed up while roasting? That
seens to help too.

I have always done my turkey in foil, but I open it earlier than the
cookbook says, and turn down teh heat just a mite, to slow the browning.
The one year that I discovered too late that I didn't have enough foil, I
ended up doing it hte traditional way, basting it religiously, according to
my old Betty Crocker. It tasted good but was dry-dry-dry!

'Lainie
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