Recipe#5117

Title: Coating for your Thanksgiving Turkey

SOAR

    1/3 c  Paprika
           Salt
           Garlic powder
           Onion; dried
           Pepper
           Water; to make paste
 
  This will do about a 13-15lb turkey.  Other seasonings are to taste. I
  never did measure. This is a coating you can put on all poultry before
  roasting.  Basically you make a paste of the above ingredients. It
  should be the consistencey of finger paint--thick and not runny. If
  you have kids, put them in old clothes and let them help. I smear it
  in and out of the cavity. Notice that this does not have any Gravy
  Master or oil...both unneeeded in my opinion. The skin cooks nice and
  crisp. Remember to baste during cooking.  BTW,  use this in the Nuke
  too.
   Sometimes we do a turkey or chicken in there when we have lot's of
  other baking/roasting to do.  When Howard was in training to be a
  Chef, he brought home a bunch of fellow students for dinner. Not one
  of them even came close to guessing that the turkey had been made in
  the nuke. I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.