Basic Bread Stuffing

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living magazine

Categories: Dressings- Stuffing- Gravies

Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup butter or margarine
  • 1/2 cup chopped onion
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped celery
  • 10 cups day-old soft bread cubes
  • 1 Tbsp. dried parsley flakes
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. rubbed sage
  • 1/4 tsp. poultry seasoning
  • 1/8 tsp. pepper

Directions

  1. Place butter, onion and celery in 3-quart glass casserole.

  2. Microwave for 4 to 5 minutes on high, or until vegetables are partly cooked. Stir in remaining ingredients; mix well. Stuff poultry.

  3. stuffs 8 to 9-lb. bird

  4. Microwave a casserole stuffing by blending 3/4 to 1 cup chicken broth into basic recipe ingredients. Place in buttered 2-qaurt glass baking dish or casserole. Cover with glass lid or wax paper. Microwave for 12 to 15 minutes, on simmer, or until hot (about 160 degrees). Let stand, covered, 5 minutes before serving.

  5. Variations:

  6. Decrease onion to 1/4 cup and celery to 1 cup. Add 1 cup chopped prunes and 1/2 cup slivered almonds to basic recipe.

  7. If stuffing a goose, decrease butter to 14 cup.

  8. Add 1 pkg. (12 oz.) bulk pork sausage, cooked and crumbled, and 1 small apple, chopped.

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