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Roast turkey with all the trimmings

Roast turkey with all the trimmings.

Time to eat

Did you hear Wincey Willis talking about a timetable to help with preparing the Christmas dinner? - Well, we've decided to help with the stresses of cooking and have added the timetable to this page.

Thanks to TV chef Peter Osbourne - who's a regular guest on Wincey Willis' show.

Please note, this assumes you have a 121b/5.4kg turkey, which you will be eating at 1.00 pm

8.45am - Turn on the oven. Stuff the turkey and weigh it again to calculate the precise cooking time

9.00am - Put turkey in roasting tin and put in oven

10.00am - Lay the table

11.00am - Parboil the potatoes

11.30am - Put beef dripping or oil into a roasting tin and place into oven to get hot, ready for the potatoes.

11.30am - Put the pudding on to steam, keep checking the water level

11.45am - Put the potatoes into the oven

11.50am - Put parsnips into the oven

11.55am - Put sausage and bacon rolls into the oven

12.00pm - Check turkey, as it should take 3-3 ½ hours to cook

12.10pm - Make the bread sauce

12.15pm - Check the contents of the oven

12.30pm - When cooked, put things on serving dishes and return to the turned-off oven.

12.30pm - Make the gravy. Strain into a saucepan for easy re-heating. Warm the plates.

12.45pm - Cook sprouts, and carrots, reheat bread sauce and gravy

1.00pm - Serve, checking:Ìý Turkey and...

Sausage and bacon rolls
Stuffing
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Potatoes
Parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots

Here is a blank timetable, if you have a Turkey of a different size or eating at a different time! Just put your own times in.

  • Turn on the oven. Stuff the turkey and weigh it again to calculate the precise cooking time
  • Put turkey in roasting tin and put in oven
  • Lay the table.
  • Parboil the potatoes
  • Put beef dripping or oil into a roasting tin and place into oven to get hot, ready for the potatoes.
  • Put the pudding on to steam, keep checking the water level
  • Put the potatoes into the oven.
  • Put parsnips into the oven.
  • Put sausage and bacon rolls into the oven.
  • Check turkey, as it should take 3-3 ½ hours to cook..
  • Make the bread sauce.
  • Check the contents of the oven. When cooked, put things on serving dishes and return to the turned-off oven.
  • Make the gravy. Strain into a saucepan for easy re-heating
  • Warm the plates.
  • Cook sprouts, and carrots, reheat bread sauce and gravy
  • Serve, checking:ÌýTurkey and...

Sausage and bacon rolls
Stuffing
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Potatoes
Parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots

Enjoy!

last updated: 02/12/2008 at 10:17
created: 27/11/2008

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