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- From: pam@cepu (Pamela McGarvey)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Herbed cornbred turkey stuffing and dressing
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- Date: 21 Nov 86 04:43:28 GMT
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- This recipe uses a macro feature that was not present in early versions of
- mod.recipes, namely an argument to the "PROCEDURE" header. The version of
- the macros that is needed to process this recipe has been distributed since
- July 1986, so I feel it is now in order to start using it. Those of you who
- are using old or customized versions of the recipe macros should pick up
- that change if you want this recipe.
- Brian Reid, Editor.
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CORNBREAD-STUF V "14 Nov 86" 1986
- .RZ "HERBED CORNBREAD DRESSING" "Southwestern style herbed cornbread turkey stuffing"
- This is the traditional McGarvey family dressing
- for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.
- It originated with my maternal grandmother in southern Virginia and
- evolved through her moves to Texas, Oklahoma and California and
- further evolved through my military family's moves all over the world.
- The recipe includes making 1 batch of cornbread and 1 batch of turkey
- broth. Directions are given for both stuffing the bird and baking the
- dressing separately.
- .IH "Serves 8"
- .SH CORNBREAD
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "yellow cornmeal" "250 g"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "all-purpose flour" "
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "baking powder" "10 ml"
- .IG "1" "egg"
- (lightly beaten)
- .IG "3 Tbsp" "vegetable oil" "50 ml"
- .IG "1 cup" "milk" "250 ml"
- .IG "" "vegetable oil"
- .SH TURKEY BROTH
- .IG "1" "turkey neck"
- (skin removed)
- .IG "" "giblets and gizzard from 1 turkey"
- .IG "" "leaves from 4 celery stalks"
- .IG "1" "celery stalk"
- .IG "1" "quartered small onion"
- .IG "12 cups" "water" "3 l"
- .SH DRESSING
- .IG "12 oz" "herbed bread cubes" "350 g"
- .IG "1" "large yellow onion,"
- chopped fine
- .IG "3" "celery stalks"
- (chopped fine)
- .IG "3 cups" "cooked rice" "500 g"
- (cooled uncovered overnight in a shallow dish)
- .IG "\(12 lb" "sliced mushrooms" "250 g"
- .IG "2 cup" "roughly chopped pecans" "250 g"
- .IG "" "butter or margarine"
- .IG "" "salt"
- .IG "" "black pepper"
- .IG "" "rubbed sage"
- .IG "" "thyme"
- .PH "(CORNBREAD)"
- .SK 1
- The night before, make the cornbread.
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 425 220 .
- .SK 2
- Thinly coat the bottom of a standard Pyrex pie plate, or
- .AB "9-inch" "22-cm"
- square baking pan,
- with vegetable oil. Put pan in oven while it is preheating and you are
- mixing the cornbread batter.
- .SK 3
- In a mixing bowl, blend together the cornmeal, flour, salt, and baking
- powder.
- .SK 4
- Stir in the egg and
- .AB "3 Tbsp" "50 ml"
- vegetable oil.
- .SK 5
- Add milk and mix thoroughly by hand. The consistency should be a thick,
- but not ``doughy'', liquid. It may be necessary to add a little more milk.
- .SK 6
- Pour into preheated pan and bake for 30 minutes or until slightly brown
- on top.
- .SK 7
- Let cool in pan for 30 minutes. Remove from pan and break up into
- very large chunks in a large mixing bowl.
- .SK 8
- Let stand overnight, uncovered.
- This will ensure that it is dry and stale.
- .PH "(TURKEY BROTH)"
- The night before, make the turkey broth.
- .SK 1
- Bring
- .AB "12 cups" "3 l"
- of water to a boil in a large pot.
- .SK 2
- Thoroughly rinse turkey neck, giblets and gizzard.
- .SK 3
- Add turkey parts, onion, celery leaves and celery stalk to water, cover, and
- reduce heat to a low simmer.
- .SK 4
- Simmer on very low heat for 2 hours.
- .SK 5
- Strain the broth, cover, cool quickly, and refrigerate.
- .PH "(DRESSING)"
- 30 minutes before you are ready to stuff the turkey, make the dressing.
- .SK 1
- Crumble the stale cornbread
- in the very largest bowl you can find.
- .SK 2
- Add the herbed bread cubes and mix thoroughly by hand.
- .SK 3
- Add the rice and mix thoroughly by hand.
- .SK 4
- Briefly saut\z\(aae the onions and celery in butter just enough
- to make the vegetables translucent.
- .SK 5
- Saut\z\(aae the mushrooms in butter or margarine until all the resulting
- liquid has evaporated.
- .SK 6
- Add the saut\z\(aaeed onions, celery, and mushrooms, and mix thoroughly.
- .SK 7
- Add the pecans and mix thoroughly.
- .SK 8
- Season with salt, pepper, sage and thyme to taste.
- .SK 9
- Bring the turkey broth to the boil and boil for a minute or two to make sure
- it is sterile.
- If you are going to stuff the turkey, add just enough
- turkey broth to barely moisten the dressing.
- .SK 10
- Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary.
- .SK 11
- Very loosely stuff the abdominal cavity and breast cavity with dressing.
- Do not pack it in tightly. It needs room to expand. You are going to be
- cooking some more dressing in a baking pan beside the turkey, so there will
- be plenty to go around.
- .SK 12
- Secure neck cavity opening with one or more poultry skewers. The abdominal
- cavity may be left open or (if your butcher cleaned the turkey properly
- and left a flap of skin) secured with poultry skewers.
- .SK 13
- Add enough boiling broth to the remaining dressing to moisten it uniformly.
- Do not over-moisten. The baked dressing should be barely moist, not gummy-wet.
- .SK 14
- Spoon dressing into uncoated baking pans.
- Cover with foil/plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to bake.
- .SK 15
- One half hour before serving dinner, bake dressing, uncovered,
- at
- .TE 425 220
- for 30 minutes.
- .NX
- This recipe
- makes enough dressing to stuff a
- .AB "15-pound" "7-kg"
- turkey and fill 2
- .AB "9-inch-square" "22-cm-square"
- baking pans.
- .PP
- \fINever\fR
- stuff the turkey until you are ready to roast it. Cooking lore is rife
- with horror stories of food poisoning resulting from turkeys stuffed too
- early and let sit while wonderful organisms develop in the stuffing. Make
- sure you bring the turkey broth to a boil before you use it, just to make
- sure that nothing is growing in it. The stuffing inside a turkey does not
- reach a high enough temperature to kill bacteria while the turkey is
- roasting, so you must be extremely careful with what you put there.
- .PP
- I like to use Pepperidge Farm brand herbed bread cubes.
- .PP
- I use a huge ceramic bowl (large
- enough for ``rising'' a 4-loaf recipe of bread dough) in which
- to mix the dressing. If you don't have one handy, you can use your kitchen
- sink. Clean and rinse the sink thoroughly, then put in the stopper and
- use as a mixing bowl.
- .PP
- If you are going to stuff the turkey, be sure that you don't overmoisten the
- dressing. The stuffing will absorb a lot of moisture from the bird,
- and who wants a turkey with stuffing soup? Also, be sure to not over-stuff
- the turkey: the stuffing will expand during the roasting and it needs room
- to expand.
- .PP
- .AB "12 cups" "3 liters"
- of turkey broth is at least double the amount of liquid necessary
- to moisten the dressing. If you use all of it, you will not have a
- relatively light, dry dressing. The extra broth should be used in making
- turkey gravy or can be the base stock for making turkey soup with the
- carcass. If you're not up to making turkey broth, you can substitute
- chicken broth, but this is a great way to use the neck and gizzard.
- .PP
- No quantities of the herbs are given because you can make this as spicy
- or as mild as you like. We like ours heavy on the sage and thyme.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- several hours, spread over 2 days.
- .I Precision:
- measure the cornbread ingredients.
- .WR
- Pamela McGarvey
- UCLA Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Los Angeles, Calif., USA
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