Roast Turkey With Maple-Butter Glaze

Ingredients

• 1 fresh turkey
• about 14 to 16 pounds
• 1/2 lemon
• 1 apple
• quartered
• 1 onion
• halved
• 3 to 4 stalks celery
• cut in half
• Salt
• 1/4 pound butter
• 1/2 cup maple syrup

Instructions

1. Bring turkey to room temperature before roasting.
2. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
3. Wash and dry turkey.
4. Stuff with lemon, apple, onion and celery.
5. Truss, and season with salt.
6. Melt butter in maple syrup over medium heat, and pour over turkey.
7. Place on a rack in a pan.
8. Roast 10 to 12 minutes for each pound.
9. Baste every 20 minutes.
10. Use an instant-read thermometer inserted into thigh without touching bone.
11. (Pop-up thermometers that come with turkeys are unreliable.)
12. Thigh should register 175 to 180 degrees at thickest part, breast meat 170 degrees.
13. Before carving, let rest out of the oven for at least 20 minutes.