by Peggy Webb
1 can cream of chicken soup
12 to 14 eggs, beaten
Bake cornbread and crumble in a large mixing bowl. While it is still hot, stir in 5 sticks of butter. Sauté onions till golden in remaining stick of butter and add to cornbread mixture. Crumble loaf bread fine and add to mixture. Next add black pepper to taste, cream of chicken soup, and beaten eggs. Heat chicken broth, then add it slowly to the cornbread mixture, stirring well. The mixture will be soupy when finished.
This mixture makes at least two large pans of dressing. You may want to freeze some to bake later.
When ready to bake, spray a large baking pan or Corning Ware baker with Pam. Fill the pan not quite to the top, allowing for expansion during the cooking process. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven until dressing stands apart when spoon is inserted. This dressing should be moist and not firm like cornbread. Serve with turkey and giblet gravy.
Mama’s Southern Cornbread
2 c. self-rising Sunflower or White Lily Cornmeal Mix
2 eggs, beaten
Approx. 1 cup buttermilk (or whole milk)
¼ c. canola oil, or to taste
Combine cornmeal mix, eggs, and buttermilk. Stir well. This mixture will be the consistency of cake batter and will pour easily; add more buttermilk if it is too thick. Put oil into a 10-inch cast-iron skillet and heat on top of the stove until the oil begins to sizzle. Turn off the burner. Pour most of the oil into the cornbread batter and stir well, leaving only a thin coating of oil along the sides and bottom of the skillet. Immediately pour batter back into the hot skillet (mixture will sizzle), and bake at 400 degrees until golden brown. This bread is equally good used as the basis for cornbread dressing with giblet gravy and served hot with black-eyed peas.
“If these directions seem vague, it’s because Mama rarely recorded her recipes. My two sisters and I have tried to re-create her famous dressing. Jo Ann is the only one who gets it right. Happy Holidays!”—Peggy, who remembers her own mama saying, “Flitter!”
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