HOMEMADE SOUTHERN-STYLE CORNBREAD DRESSING
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Homemade Southern-style Cornbread Dressing, this is my recipe of our family favorite version of this Southern classic
My kid is so funny…at least he cracks me up. If he ever becomes not funny, I won’t have any material for the blog!
He gets in the car from school the other day and says, “Mommie, I have got to have something to eat, my blood sugar is low!” bahahaha, I still get tickled, what 8-year-old says that?
Of course, I know part of the problem, this was the first day back to school after the holidays. The same holidays that he ate 7 meals a day every day for 9 days. I’m sure he was hungry… I don’t know about his blood sugar though. I surmise that was just a ploy to get me to stop on the way home for a snack meal.
Really, can I blame him, we had yummy family favorites like this Homemade Southern-style Cornbread Dressing, these Candied Sweet Potatoes and this Amaretta Cream Cheese Coffee Cake!?
HOMEMADE SOUTHERN-STYLE CORNBREAD DRESSING
I know there are tons of different varieties of Cornbread Dressing out there. Wesley didn’t like my family’s Cornbread Dressing and I didn’t like his family’s Cornbread Dressing. We tweaked this recipe to our tastes and now we’re both happy. With any recipe, adjust the seasonings and flavorings to fit you and your family’s taste. That’s what makes each recipe special to your family.
By the way, do you call it Dressing or Stuffing? I think the difference comes in somewhere along the Mason-Dixon line. To Southerners, it’s Dressing, to everyone else Stuffing. Or, I’ve heard some say that Stuffing is cooked in (stuffed! get it?!) the bird and Dressing is not…
I dunno…I eat Dressing.
This Dressing. It’s yummy!
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Homemade Southern-style Cornbread Dressing
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Ingredients
- 18 cups cornbread crumbled
- 5 cups stale white bread or biscuits torn into small pieces
- 1 cup minced celery
- 1 cup Vidalia onion grated
- 2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 2 Tablespoon sage
- 1 Tablespoon fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ½ cup butter
- 4 quarts chicken broth
- 9 eggs beaten
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix together cornbread and white bread (or biscuits) in a large bowl.
- Boil celery, onion, butter, and broth until celery and onion are tender.
- Add poultry seasoning, sage, thyme, salt, and pepper to eggs and beat.
- Add eggs to bread crumb mixture and stir.
- Pour into bread crumb mixture one ladle broth at a time until moist. Stir well.
- Pour into two 9×13-inch casserole dishes.
- Pour one cup of broth over top of the dressing.
- Bake at 350°F until golden brown and firm to the touch.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
That is how we came up with the name for the blog site. We were discussing dressing vs stuffing and my daughter ended it with …whatever Tumbleweed Contessa. BTW we had dressing for Thanksgiving and the mother in law made a small pan of white bread stuffing with cherries as a side. If there had been sugar in it I might have eaten it for dessert!
Cornbread dressing is my favorite part of the meal.
Thanks for sharing, Paula.
Linda aka Tumbleweed Contessa
Ha! I love that!!
So I’m confused. Why do I need 4 quarts of chicken broth if I’m only pouring a cup of chicken broth over it? Also, what temperature do you put it in the oven on and for how long?