Careful to make sure the soaked cheesecloth is entirely inside the roaster as you don’t want the butter dripping into your oven.

Cooking a turkey with cheesecloth. The cooking time is as follows. Remove the packet of giblets from the cavity of the bird and save them for gravy or stuffing. Use aluminum foil if you run out of cheesecloth, you don't want the bird to brown too fast.

Transfer the dripping and broth to a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Web directions watch watch how to make this recipe. Now put the turkey into a very hot oven of 450f.

Next, use paper towels to pat the bird dry inside and out. In a small bowl, whisk together 1/4 cup of flour and 1/2 cup of milk together until smooth and then slowly whisk the slurry into the drippings. A roasting pan with a rack;

Combine melted butter white wine and stock in a medium sized saucepan. Web place the turkey, breast side up, on the roasting rack. Web rub 4 teaspoons salt mixture under skin of each breast half, 2 teaspoons salt under skin of each leg, and remaining salt mixture into cavity.

Place rack on lowest level in oven. After about 2 hours cooking, remove the roasting pan. But then, towards the end of the cook time, remove the foil so the skin—the best part in this.

Web place the turkey in the oven and cook for 30 minutes the using a pastry brush , baste the cheesecloth and exposed parts of the turkey with the reserved butter wine mixture. Web remove cheesecloth from butter mixture, gently squeezing out excess liquid into bowl. Add 2 cup water to the bottom of the roasting pan.