[Sca-cooks] TURKEY GRAVY

[Elaine Koogler]

I make cornbread dressing rather than stuffing.  Basically, it's a rich eggbread
mixed with the same amount of stale white bread.  You start off by cooking the
neck in water to make a broth.  Then you cook chopped onion and celery in the
broth until translucent.  Next you crumble up the cornbread and white bread and
pour the broth mixture, an egg or two (depending on quantity), salt, pepper, a
dash of sugar and mix the whole business up (using your hands works better than
trying to use a spoon).  Pack it into a glass baking dish and bake at 350 until a
straw come out of the center cleanly.  This recipe, along with instructions on how
to roast the turkey and make giblet gravey, comes from the Purefoy Hotel in
Talladega, AL..and was what my mother made when I was growing up!  I really love
it!

Kiri

Morses3 at aol.com wrote:

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> In a message dated 11/14/2001 11:23:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, lcm at efn.org
> writes:
>
> > like that cornbread stuff that Seumas wants to put into
> > the turkey! Get me a crucifix!
> >
> >
>
> I'll delurk to say that I've always thought I'm a decent gravy maker (no
> recipe, just throw in whatever is around and stir :-), but I've gotten lots
> of good ideas from these messages. Who knew you could put wine in gravy- I'll
> definitely try it!
>
> On the same note since it's a timely subject, what stuffing recipes does
> everyone use that they like the best? Which ones have you tried and not liked?
>
> My standby favorite for the last 15 years has celery, water chestnuts,
> cranberry sauce (yes, in the stuffing), lots of sage and pepper, onions, a
> little apple juice,and Jimmy Dean hot sausage all mixed up with the bread
> cubes. (Hey, I grew up in the south....it HAS to be Jimmy Dean!) I don't cook
> mine in the turkey since I prefer to let the turkey cook faster and like
> making the stuffing ahead of time for the flavors to blend.
>
> The worst stuffing I've had was a cornbread based one (that's what they said
> it was, we all doubted it...)at a friend's house one year that contained
> canned peas (the really big ones like they used to serve in the school
> cafeteria) onions, and curry. They said they made up the recipe
> themselves....Nobody present doubted them.
>
> Gervase
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