Stuffing vs Dressing

What do you call it and why? I've heard that it's suffing if you cook it IN the bird.. and Dressing if you make it outside of the bird. Makes sense I guess.

That said.. How do you make yours?

I use stale bread cubes. I prefer white bread, but many here in the Southern states use cornbread.

I cook the turkey giblets and neck in salted water. Mom used to grind up the giblets in the meat grinder. I prefer the blender with a bit of the cooking liquid mixed in. I pour the cooking liquid over the bread cubes and stir in the liquified giblets.

NEXT I melt a whole stick of butter in a pan and saute celery and onion. I season this with sage, marjoram, and parsley.

Allow to cool down and add that to the moistened bread cubes..

THEN I beat up some eggs.. 3 or 4.. and use my hands to squish up the mixture into a nice mush.

Ready to stuff in a bird.. or put in a casserole to bake next to the bird... DONE..

addendum.. I have used brown pork sausage in place of the giblets in the past.. That works nice too.

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I use stale bread crumbed with lightly fried onions and sage, or make a nutty fruity stuffing with dried apricots and walnuts, or sometimes a garlic and mushroom and onion mix all depends what I have at hand and what I am stuffing.


I don't put much butter in I rely on the butter I cook the onions in to do the moistening and an egg.

Also I put the stuffing under the skin of birds not in the cavity.

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If I'm making dressing to serve with Pork.. I use browned pork sausage, and I include diced apples or dried cranberries..

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I have never put meat in a stuffing it's usually because I keep some back to cook separately for us vegetarians.

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I buy a packet of Sage & Onion stuffing !!!

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Nothing wrong with that the cheapie sainsburys basic 15p a packet is actually quite nice.

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Here we have Stove Top stuffing... It comes in lots of varieties.. It's actually not that bad when one doesn't have the time or inclination to make the homemade variety.

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Oh you've just said a bad word there Audrey Kraft ! They have messed with our chocolate and can never be forgiven !!

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Oh my.... what did they do to your chocolate?

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They now own Cadbury it has not been the same since they took over and they have taken the bournville chocolate out of the hero box ! Absolute sacrilege !