HOLIDAY DRESSING

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Provided by Joyce Lowery

Time 4h

Number Of Ingredients 24

1 chicken
2 chicken bouillon cubes
1 tsp salt
2 biscuits, cold and crumbled
1 recipe of cornbread, cold and crumbled
1 c pecans, toasted and finely ground
2 eggs, boiled and chopped
4 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp bacon drippings
1 lb pork sausage
1 onion, chopped
4 Tbsp celery, chopped fine
4 Tbsp bell pepper, chopped fine
4 chicken bouillon cubes, dissolved in 1 cup boiling water
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1 pkg pepperidge farm stuffing mix, regular
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp sage, dried
1 tsp poultry seasoning
1 tsp lawry's seasoning salt
2 eggs, well beaten
1 can(s) cream of celery soup
3 can(s) chicken broth, from the boiled chicken

Steps:

1. Boil chicken in water that has been seasoned with salt and chicken bouillon cubes. Cool the chicken and debone. Shred the chicken into small pieces. Save the broth. Save the giblets for the gravy.
2. Make biscuits and cornbread the day before. Let it sit out all night to cool and dry.
3. Toast the pecans in butter and grind to fine meal.
4. When ready to make dressing, combine crumbled cornbread, biscuits, stuffing mix, chopped chicken, and ground toasted pecans together. Mix well.
5. Add the chopped boiled eggs and mix well.
6. Cook the sausage until browned. Drain, but save the drippings.
7. Mix sausage with cornbread mixture.
8. Melt the sausage drippings, bacon drippings, and butter in a skillet.
9. Saute the vegetables in the above drippings until tender (do not drain). Add one can of chicken broth (from boiled chicken) and cream of celery soup. Stir over low heat until celery soup is dissolved. Add to the cornbread mixture and mix well.
10. Combine seasonings with beaten eggs and add to the cornbread mixture.
11. Add enough of the chicken broth to the cornbread mixture to make it soupy.
12. Pour into lightly sprayed roasting pan.
13. Bake covered in a 325 degree oven for one hour.
14. Remove cover and bake uncovered until golden brown. If you like the dressing on the moist side, baste with additional chicken broth once it is uncovered.