Delicious Roast Turkey
Instructions:
- 12- to 20-pound turkey
- 2 teaspoons (or to taste) salt
- 1 teaspoon (or to taste) pepper
- 1 teaspoon (or to taste) poultry spices
- ¼ cup butter
- If purchased frozen, thaw turkey by leaving in the refrigerator for 24 hours, then finish thawing in hot water in thoroughly cleaned kitchen sink just before cooking (and thoroughly clean sink afterwards as well as counter where bird was prepared).
- Remove all giblets from neck or chest cavity.
- Stuff bird, using one of the dressing recipes in this book, and truss cavity.
- Rub a mixture of salt, pepper, poultry spices, and butter on upper surface of turkey.
- Arrange turkey on a rack in a roasting pan.
- Roast at 350 degrees F, allowing 20 minutes cooking time for each pound of turkey.
- When done, cut and remove trussing threads, and place turkey, breast side up, on serving platter.