Holiday Turkey

Ingredients:

Turkey oven bag
1 T Flour
2 Stalks celery, sliced
1 Medium onion, sliced
12 to 24 Pound turkey, thawed
Vegetable oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Shake flour in oven bag; place in roasting pan at least two inches deep.

Add vegetables to oven bag. Remove neck and giblets from turkey. Rinse turkey; pat dry. Lightly stuff with your favorite stuffing recipe, if desired. Brush turkey with oil. Place turkey in oven bag on top of vegetables.

Close oven bag with nylon tie; cut six 1/2-inch slit in top. Insert meat thermometer through slit in bag into the thickest part of inner thigh, not touching bone.

Bake until meat thermometer reads 180 degrees, 2 to 2 1/2 hours for a 12 to 16 pound turkey, 2 1/2 to 3 hours for a 16 to 20 pound turkey, and 3 to 3 1/2 hours for a 20 to 24 pound turkey. Add 1/2 hour for stuffed turkey.

Let stand in bag 15 minutes. If turkey sticks to oven bag, gently loosen bag from turkey before opening oven bag.

* From my mom's recipe box