T.. Yearwoods Turkey

17 years ago

thought I posted this earlier, but can't find it, sorry if it is a duplication. Has anyone purchased her cookbook, I have drooled over it several times at the Books A Million store and plan to add it to my MeMe's wish list for Christmas in big red letters! this recipe is interesting...but, I'm skeptical about the outcome...reviews I have read are mixed, would you risk it?

Trisha Yearwood's Turkey Recipe

A couple years back at the KILT 10 Man Jam Trisha Yearwood passed along her turkey recipe with the staff. Tom Fontaine, who is a really good cook, said he made it that year and it was GREAT!

So here it is if'n ya want to try it.

Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. Rub the turkey inside and out with melted butter. Use REAL butter. Rub with salt and pepper. Stuff the turkey with onion, apple and celery (or whatever you want) - as much as will fit (just keep alternating onion, apple and celery until it is full.) Pour two cups of BOILING water in with the turkey and cover it. Cook for 1 hour at 500 degrees. Then, turn off the oven and go to bed. When you wake up, the turkey will be done.

DON'T OPEN THE OVEN FOR ANY REASON AFTER YOU TURN IT OFF OR YOU WILL RUIN THE TURKEY!

It is best to use a speckled pan (dark blue in color with white speckles).

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maryanntx
17 years ago
Last year my good friend's grandmother tried a recipe similar to this one. Only problem is she forgot to turn off the oven and the next morning the turkey was a black mess and her house a little stinky, LOL Their Thanksgiving had to be moved to a different house and a dinner cooked in a hurry.

It does sound good though. Yours, not hers. :0)
lydia1959
17 years ago
I had to do a search to make sure this recipe was for real.. and it is!

"Your most radical recipe is the one where you bake the turkey for an hour at 500Â°F, shut off the oven, and then leave it in there for another six hours. I'm going to try it, but I'm nervous, I will tell you.
Trisha: I know, I know. Most people just go, "There's no way." All my friends go, "You're going to get salmonella if you leave your turkey in the oven." But when you turn your oven off, it's still cooking. I'm just telling you, it works, it's so easy, and it's so good. Garth made me do a stunt turkey because he couldn't believe it. So make one when you don't have 13 people coming over, and then you're confident for the big day."
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I've heard about this recipe, but like Old Rusty....I'd like to hear something about it from someone who has tried it...I can't find any first hand reviews...
mary_c_gw
17 years ago
I'm pretty sure the recipe would be safe enough. But I envision a turkey done at 6 a.m., and ICK. I guess if you serve the big meal early in the day, it might be OK.

I'll stick with a traditionally roasted turkey, served hot, at our usual dinner time.
Nita__AZ
17 years ago
I have done this for years and it turns out wonderful. Since we are going to friends house for Thanksgiving I am going to do my turkey next week. This is how my recipe reads.

Take a turkey about 12 - 15 pounds and clean him out really good.
Inside the cavity put 1 apple cored and quartered, 1 onion peeled and quartered and 2 celery ribs. Place turkey in a roasting pan and butter the outside then salt and pepper him. Pour 2 quarts of very hot water (as hot as you can get out of the tap) around the turkey and cover him tightly with aluminum foil.

Bake him for 1 hour at 450 degrees and then shut the oven off and don't open the door. I leave him for about 6 hours and then open the door and you will have a wonderfully moist turkey that just about falls off the bones.

The past 2 years I have made a steamed turkey and also a conventional turkey for my gang for Thanksgiving. The steamed turkey is always gone and the other turkey has lots left for leftovers.

Save all the juices for your turkey soup it is so tasty.

T.. Yearwoods Turkey

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