Southern Cornbread Dressing

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups crumbled stale bread, toasted lightly
• 4 cups crumbled cornbread (i use 1 recipe's worth of buttermilk cornbread)
• 2 cups chicken broth, heated
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups chopped onions
• 2 cups chopped celery
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
• 16 ounces sausage

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350. crumble and cook sausage. drain and set aside.
• 2 combine bread and cornbread into a large bowl. pour hot broth over the bread and let stand until softened.
• 3 saute onion and celery in butter until tender; add to bread. add eggs and ix in with your hands.
• 4 add salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning and mix.
• 5 add cooked sausage and mix again. the mixture should be "sloppy" wet; if it isn't wet enough, add more chicken broth.
• 6 the original recipe says it is enough to stuff a 10-15 lb turkey, but i prefer to cook in a 13x9 pan for 55 minutes.