In the land of prepared boxed goods, I had not made stuffing from scratch since I left home (a long time ago). I had watched my mother make it for 18 years or more but never really done it myself. Since I couldn't find a prepared stuffing mix here, I decided to make it the old fashioned way.
When I moved out of the house, Mom gave me a cookbook with a few of here recipes in it and one of them was her scratch stuffing. This is the recipe:
Day old bread, broken in pieces
Broth to moisten
Salt & Pepper to taste
Celery chopped
onion chopped
poultry seasoning
chopped gizzard, liver, neck meat.
That's it. Note all of the precise measurements and baking instructions. The definition of scratch cooking. :)
We tore up some bread. I decided to toss in some bacon, Caesar spiced croutons and jalapenos. I made my own poultry seasoning from the spices I had in the cupboard. Interestingly, our turkey only had a neck...no other giblets.
It turned out OK. I needed to bake it a little longer at a higher temperature than I originally tried but it was still worth eating.
Thanks Mom!
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