This is my first time of posting, so hope I don't do anything wrong!
morethan2, I do hope your turkey turned out OK and your family didn't go hungry!
This was our first Christmas for donkeys years that we were just the 2 of us, so we didn't bother with turkey, had a chicken but with all the trimmings - stuffing, bread sauce, chipolatas, home made redcurrant jelly (from home grown red currants), though we didn't bother with the stuff the breast with sausage meat like we do on a turkey. I am blessed with an OH who is a great cook, and it was all delicious. (Should perhaps point out that I'm disabled, so can't really cook these days.)
As to cooking turkey, the very first year I cooked one Woman's Own had an article on how to do most of the prep the day before. That turkey was fine (it was a bit scary doing a turkey for the first time!) so we just tucked the instructions in our Good Housekeeping Cookery Book and they come out every year. We've never had any complaints about the birds!
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