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smoked turkey
Smoked Turkey For each four quarts of water: Brine 1 1/2 cups curing salt 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 3 cup cider 1/2 teaspoon ginger 4 tablespoons black pepper 1/2 cup lemon...
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Ingredients7 items
Ingredients
- 11/2 cups curing salt
- 1/2cupfirmly packed brown sugar
- 3cupcider
- 1/2teaspoonginger
- 4tablespoonblack pepper
- 1/2cuplemon juice
- 1/2ouncemaple flavoring
Directions
- 1
Smoked Turkey For each four quarts of water: Brine 1 1/2 cups curing salt 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 3 cup cider 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 2
Simmer over medium heat five minutes per pound
- 3
Remove bird from brine and allow to air dry for at least one hour
- 4
Begin preheating smoker
- 5
Rub skin with a modest amount of brown sugar
- 6
Suspend the whole bird from meat bar on smoker rack
- 7
Leave bottom rack in smoker and fabricate a drip pan out of aluminum foil
- 8
Smoke one hour per pound, basting with melted butter every 1 1/2 hours