fact that once the tamper-indicating closure is formed between female and male mold portions, it was necessary to remove the male mold portion from within the formed closure. If the projections were molded in their final upward and radially inward positions beneath the male mold portion, removal of the male mold portion from within the closure would cause these projections to bend severely and break off from the tamper-indicating ring. Instead, under these previous molding processes, closures were molded having projections that point straight down in an unbent fashion. In this manner, bending and breaking off of the projections during removal of the male mold portion was avoided. However, after removal of the male mold portion, post-forming operations became necessary to bend the projections upwardly to their finala mold cavity in which the tamper-indicating closure is molded. The next steps in the method are to move the male and female mold portions into the mold closed position; to provide a mold material into the mold cavity; and, to maintain the mold portions in the mold closed position for a predetermined time period until the tamper-indicating closure is formed with its projections disposed at their predetermined radius of curvature. Next, the male mold portion is removed from the molded closure, whereby the projections temporarily bend from their predetermined radius of curvature to a second position. The closure includes a plurality of strain relief recesses corresponding to the number of projections, each strain relief recess being located radially outwardly from each projection. Each recess, in combination with