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If you cut out the wishbone before you cook the bird it makes it much easier to carve the bird at the table. You can carve parallel to the breastbone and serve neat, thick slices of breast and stuffing.

Here's how: Lift the neck skin and, using the point of a small knife, outline and then cut out the bone. You can roast the bone in the pan beside the bird so the annual wishbone-snapping contest can take place.

Try it, you'll like it!

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