Turkey Everyone Raves About
- 15 lbs whole turkey
- 20 ounces cheesecloth
- 2 lbs butter
- 2 ounces fresh poultry seasoning, herbs
- 1 (750 ml) bottleof good white wine
- Obviously defrost turkey and remove giblets.
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Take half of 1lb of butter and allow to come to room temperature.
- Rub rinsed and patted dry turkey with room temperature butter.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Take one package of cheesecloth, open it up and fold it in a way that will cover the entire turkey.
- (Use the whole cheesecloth for this).
- Place cheesecloth over entire turkey.
- Wrap/bundle fresh poultry seasoning herbs in cheesecloth (whatever you need to use,you can cut to size) and tie to secure.
- This makes for easier removal.
- Place the rest of the butter,wine and wrapped herbs in a pot on the stove.
- Heat till melted and fragrant.
- Baste entire turkey with butter, wine, herb mixture over the cheesecloth.
- Baste turkey every 20 minutes from pot with wine, butter, herb mixture until till recommended cooking time is up.
- If you run out of the mixture in the pot, use what is in the roasting pan.
- Every time you baste, rotate the turkey, left to right.
- At the end of cooking, baste, remove cheesecloth and let rest for 10 minutes.
- BTW~ cheesecloth may look "burnt" do not worry -- the turkey won't be -- DO NOT COVER WHILE COOKING.
turkey, cheesecloth, butter, poultry seasoning, bottleof good white wine
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/turkey-everyone-raves-about-262400 (may not work)