Dressing vs. stuffing.

[texanwitch]

I will be making cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving.

My Grandmother made the best dressing ever.

[nolabear]

1. You and me both, Girl.

My grandmother's was great too. I'm thinking of dividing mine in half and putting oysters in half. Cornbread oyster dressing is amazing.

[texanwitch]

2. My Grandmother would put any old bread, crackers, and cornbread in the dressing.

You didn't waste food back then.

My dressing is ok, but nothing like my Grandmothers.

Of course she had fresh eggs to add, I don't.

She had this huge pot to cook it in.

I would have loved to have tasted it cooked in the old wood burning stove she had before gas.

Also a fresh killed chicken didn't hurt.

Fresh chicken broth.

[nolabear]

3. Mine was similar but very different. She ran a cafe so we had a killer kitchen.

We often had ham rather than turkey but that great dressing was something else. And talk about not wasting leftovers, the ham came from a man who was a customer of hers and took the cafe's leftovers for his pigs every day. We "recycled" them, so to speak.

Edited to add I'd have liked to taste dressing from that woodstove too!

[texanwitch]

4. I would think wood smoke might add a taste.

They kept the old stove when they changed to gas.

It was a monster stove, must have been really hot in the summer.