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Thanksgiving Turkey 🦃 series – Day 1 Brine the bird

Wash the turkey well, rinse and add the brine to marinate.

Adjust ingredients to the weight of the turkey and to your taste and liking.

Turkey Brining recipe
Method
Boil all of above in a pot with water. Cool completely. Submerge the turkey in the cooled brine.

Ingredients
1 10 lb approx Organic Turkey (Organic means no chemicals were used in the life of the turkey and it does taste better. Non-organic is fine too and Butterball works as well)
1 chopped apple
Washed apple peels
1 tsp tsp each of rosemary, thyme, cinnamon and onion powder
3 bay leaves
3 cups of regular salt
1 cup of brown sugar
1 huge steel pot with lid (larger than the size of the turkey)
8 cups water or more if pot is bigger
Keep the pot covered in refrigerator and turn turkey around each day till thanksgiving day.

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Thanksgiving Turkey 🦃 series – Day 2 Flip the bird and stuff it with Celery.Wash and Chop 2 long sticks of Celery.
Saute in 1 tsp of oil for 3 minutes. Cool.
Take out the Turkey from refrigerator.
Flip the bird in the pot and open the cavity.
Fill the cavity with sauted celery.
Cover pot and put it in the refrigerator.

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This pickled cranberry sauce goes with Thanksgiving Roasted Turkey. If you do not have the time (one week) to pickle the cranberries, you can make it with fresh cranberries.

Recipe for pickled cranberries.

1 cup fresh cranberries, not dried.
1 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup salt
Combine Cranberries, White Vinegar and salt in a glass bottle.
Cover and pickle for a week.

Recipe for the cranberry sauce

1 Cup of pickled cranberries as made above.

This is optional, if ♥you do not have the time (one week) to pickle the cranberries, you can make it with one cup of fresh cranberries (1/2 tsp Salt or to taste to compensate)