Grandmothers Cornbread Dressing Success tips

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So much of making dressing depends on how your family likes it. My mother and grandmother made their dressing nearly alike. But Really dressing is such an individual thing, Here are tips passed down from my family throughout the years and how I make mine. Good luck from this 77 y/o great-grandmother.
Mrs Carol Cox-Drennan

subheading: A couple of things from their experience:

Cook your cornbread and biscuits several days ahead, crumble it when cool, and lay it out on shallow flat pans to dry.

If you are not cooking a turkey or a large chicken for the broth, then buy chicken pieces with bones and skin, such as wings (cheap) and boil them with a large onion cut into 4ths, 3 or 4 pieces of celery cut into 4: pieces, a carrot or two, also cut into pieces, and a couple of bay leaves.

The boiling process will take all the goodness out of the veggies, so throw them away after cooking.

Do not discard any fat from the broth.

We use a ratio of cornbread to biscuits roughly 4 to 1; this is our preference so adjust according to your needs.

I chop the onion and celery and cook it in butter until it begins to soften, as we don't like raw onions. If you prefer the sharper flavors, don't bother with this step.

I buy poultry seasoning fresh every year, as it goes bad quickly.

Also buy chicken broth in the boxes if you are making a lot of dressing. Add at the end of mixing if you feel the dressing is too dry.

Remember dressing freezes well, either before or after baking.

My ingredients include cornbread, biscuits, chopped onion and celery as described above, poultry seasoning, freshly ground black pepper, salt, a little sugar to round out the flavor, and additional ground sage if you like a lot of it. (We don't.)

You can boil eggs and chop them for your dressing, or if you like a stiffer dressing, beat an egg or two and add it to the mix.

I like to add sliced mushrooms, but my mother didn't ever do that.

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