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Cooking Turkey for Beginners - An Easy Step-by-Step Turkey Recipe

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Cover the Turkey Breasts with Foil

Turkey Recipe Step-by-Step - How to Cook a Turkey

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Fold a piece of foil large enough to just cover the turkey breast. The foil should cover loosely - there is no need to press the foil down onto the butter.

About an hour before the cooking time is done (see next step for times), remove the foil to brown the skin on the breasts.

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