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BREAD DRESSING



This is a family favorite passed down from my husband’s grandmother who, widowed at an early age, supported her family by cooking for crews of laborers.

INGREDIENTS:


 
  1 pound slab bacon
2 medium onions
1 stalk celery
1/2 apple
1/2 loaf of very dry Italian bread grated
1 loaf of dry Italian bread soaked in water
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
parsley, salt, pepper, garlic
gizzard, heart and liver
Italian grating cheese
3-5 eggs
 



  GRIND bacon, onions, celery, apple, gizzard, heart and liver
FRY bacon, remove from frying pan.
COOK all remaining ground ingredients and parsley in bacon grease
ADD salt, pepper and garlic
SIMMER for 1/2 hour
ADD dry grated bread and cook until lightly brown
SET fried ingredients aside

SOAK dry Italian bread in cold water.
DRAIN well (I even squeeze it out by hand)
MIX bread and 3 eggs to cooked mixture
ADD handful of grating cheese and fried bacon bits
MIX
PLACE a small amount inside the bird and the rest in the pan.
BASTE along with the bird




 




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