Pillowcase is necessary ingredient for this Thanksgiving turkey recipe [Video]

Elizabeth Heiskell’s grandmother had a problem: Her Thanksgiving turkey was getting too brown, too fast. That just wouldn’t do. 

“It would drive her crazy,” Heiskell, a food contributor and cookbook author who lives in Oxford, Mississippi, told Fox News Digital. She said her perfectionist grandmother “really had to have that Norman Rockwell look” for her bird. 

Her resourceful grandmother’s solution? Wrap the turkey in a pillowcase, soak the pillowcase in alcohol and put the whole thing in the oven.

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While this may sound completely bonkers, Heiskell swears by it – and continues to make her turkeys this way after all this time. 

On Thanksgiving eve, Heiskell and her family gather to celebrate — and they’ll be finding a pillowcase, ripping it up and proceeding to prep their holiday turkeys. 

“It’s like a team sport,” she said. 

The pillowcase has to be “100% cotton” and clean – “not one …