Janet Baraclough wrote:
> The message >
> from Becca > contains these words:
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>> People who have been here a while have heard this story. About 8-10
>> years ago, my niece, "M", called me Thanksgiving morning, crying.
>> She baked a turkey to bring to the family gathering, but the turkey
>> did not look right. I drove to her house, and the turkey was upside
>> down.
>
>> First of all, M's mother never cooked, and M had been addicted to
>> cocaine for over 10 years, so you never knew what to expect. I am
>> happy to say, that after being addicted to cocaine for over 20
>> years, she has now been sober for 2 years. We never thought we
>> would see her sober.
>
>> BTW, the turkey tasted fine. We flipped it back over, browned it and
>> nobody knew.
>
> Years ago , our sons woke us on Christmas morning with champagne
> cocktails. At breakfast we had Bucks Fizz and by the time I started
> cooking dinner I was rather the worse for wear. But hell, I thought,
> I've cooked so many turkey dinners I can do it with my eyes shut.
> Somehow, I put the bird in the roasting pan upside down and didn't
> notice. I didn't notice when I basted it, or when I got it out of the
> oven and put it on the serving platter.
> It wasn't until I prepared to carve the turkey, that I noticed it
> was strangely deformed; in fact I couldn't work out its anatomy at
> all, or how to carve it. I called on my vet surgeon son who laughed
> so hard he was unable to say what was wrong with the bird. John
> turned it over and did the deed.
> It was the best turkey I had ever cooked; self-basted the breast and
> legs beautifully moist and tender. Ever since then I've always cooked
> the turkey upside down.
>
> Janet

We always do our birds upside down, too. The juice from the thigh meat
escapes right into the breast meat. It does make for a much tastier bird.

kili