Quote Originally Posted by jim View Post
You use the carcass to make the broth? Any time we do a whole bird in a pot goes the bones & such, fills the spaces in freezer nice.
The wife will put it in a pot and finish it off some but we are prone to making soup from it. I add water to the pan and in the cavity's as the bird cooks to increase the broth but still like some chicken thrown in for canning.

Now I find that for canning I cook the turkey straight up but for thanksgiving I brine the bird. Depending on my mood the brine can make the turkey great but the resulting gravy um