Cider is delish with turkey or goose.
One year I got this idea to marinate the turkey in cider THEN...Smoke it with cider in the water pan of the smoker.
The idea was that the cider would perfume the turkey and keep it moist as the hickory smoked it.
It was a good plan except cider reduces to a syrup after a while and when it burn off in the water pan the entire bird was ruined!
It would have worked if I had just kept the cider from becoming syrup.
Ruined the smoker too LoL
That’s pretty funny. Who would have thought? I wonder if you smoked it with apple wood, after marinating it in the cider? I wish I had see this idea earlier, I would like to try it.
This year, for the first time in a while, we’re only having five people to cook for, so I’m doing a simplied, but more “elegant” menu than usual. Instead of a whole turkey, I’m roasting a 10 pound whole turkey breast. I’ve never done just a breast before, but I wonder how long you would marinate it?