I have had 3 sons playing High School Football games on Thanksgiving morning for the last 10 year. I have used this recipe that I got from Listening to Dave Maynard on WBZ radio. It is as follows:
Using your hands, slather bird heavily with vegetable oil in foil-lined roasting pan.(Keep soapy dish handy to rinse hands). Place bird...breast down...on 4-6 slices of dry toast arranged in square under the brest. Roast in the lower part of the over at 400F, for about 45 minutes. Remove and cool.
If bird is to be stuffed, stuff it now, adding the pieces of toast from the breast(cut them up) for added flavor. Remove pan foil and clean pan. Rewrap bird with foil(breast side up) tightly in 2 sheets of heavy foil, north to sosuth and east to west. Return to 350F oven to finish baking at 18-20 minutes per pound(including the 400F baking time).
20-30 minutes before done, cut foil lenghtwise down breast to brownbreast. Pour off juices and return to oven to continue browning breast. Make gravy whil breast finished browning.
