Posted by Ashley | Posted in Recipes, Tricks of the Trade | Posted on 23-11-2011
This great brine is a wonderful way to add extra flavor to your turkey…
The turkey should soak in the brine for about 24 hours… so start this guy on Wednesday morning, for Thursday Turkey Day…
You will need:
- 16 cups of water
- 5 apples
- 1 orange
- 14 peppercorns whole
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 cup of Bourbon
- 4 bay leaves
- 2 cups of salt
- 1 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar
- 1 small onion chopped
Start by cleaning out the inside of your turkey….
then in a large 5 gallon pail, or a very large sauce pan, place the water….
next using a cirtus press cut the apples in half and squeeze them through the press, and then add the extra bits of mushed apple, the skin and seeds are fine to do in the pot…
Using a sharp knife peal off the orange skin into strips, and then sqeeze the juice into the pot with the cirtus press…
next add the salt, sugar, bay leaves, onion, peppercorns, garlic….
stir it all together to make sure the sugar and salt are mixed in….
then slip that little turkey into his over night bath….
after the little guy is in his bath pour a nice little topping of the bourbon over him…. then plastic wrap his lid so he may bathe in peace…
bathe happy little friend, sorry your little leggies are sticking out …
