Turkey - whose recipe?

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Cooking my first Xmas dinner this year so have gone an ordered a turkey from the butcher even though we are only four adults and two kids! I just wanted a recommendation for cooking the turkey as I am confusing myself trawling the internet as whether to stuff or not etc!

I have Nigella Xmas and Delia Xmas. Would love to do Nigellas in a bucket but have nowhere cold to keep it and scared of leaving outside due to foxes no matter how well covered. I always think delia overcooks her meat so not keen on using that one.

Any tried and tested recipes this way thanks

i dawb mine with butter or marg and then wrap in double layer of foil, leaving a gap between foil and turkey at top for steam. it then steams itself untill nearly the end, when you take the foil off and then baste it. if you want i'll look up the cooking times.

for me this method has 2 advantages - 1 its moist as its steaming most of the time, and 2 i don't need to do anything till 30 mins before the end.

i cook stuffing separately because i have been told that it can cause food posioning if you cook it in turkey - it affects length of cooking. i was also worried about bones in turkey getting into stuffing

make sure you take the plastic bag with a the innerds out before cooking....i've forgotten a few times

Delia's turkey cooking instructions are spot on, in my experience (nearer 30 than 20 years of doing it her way every Christmas Day). I put the stuffing inside the bird and just allow for the extra weight when I calculate the cooking time. I have never, ever found a bone in the stuffing. Turkey bones are not like fish bones, they're not small.