Ingredients
- 1 loaf of stale bread
- Pepper
- Rosemary
- Poultry seasoning
- Thyme
- Celery Salt
- Garlic
- 1 lbs sausage meat
- 2 chopped onions
- 1 chopped green pepper
- 1 chopped celery
- 1 cup apple sauce -or- chopped apple
- 1 can sliced mushrooms
- 1 slightly beaten egg
Directions
- In a large bowl, tear stale bread in to smallish pieces.
- Add spices—-pepper, rosemary, poultry seasoning, thyme, celery salt/ seed, lots of garlic, anything else you like and season to taste fresh spices are best but dried will do…..
- In a large frying pan, brown 1 pound of sausage meat, drain off fat, and add to torn bread
- In the same pan, saute 2 chopped onions( or more), chopped green peppers, celery to suit. Add to the bread & spices
- Add about a cup of apple sauce or a chopped apple which could be sauteed with the onions.
- Fresh sliced ( or—1 can of sliced mushrooms and 1 can of whole mushrooms) added to mix
- Add 1 slightly beaten egg to mix and toss together.
- STUFF TURKEY FROM BOTH ENDS & it is even better if you loosen the skin over the whole bird and stuff between the skin and meat. This flavours the whole bird and keeps it moister.
- Place turkey on a lifter rack in a foil pan. This lets you lift the cooked bird out and save the drippings for gravy.
- Always use cornstarch to thicken the gravy.
- Rub the whole turkey with olive oil, crushed garlic, and pour a little lemon juice over it too. Pepper to suit.
- Cover loosely with foil and roast in the oven to time suiting the size of bird!
Description
Every year we would head to my aunt and uncle’s house for Thanksgiving. I remember first thing in the morning my aunt would be in her housecoat browning the sausage meat and prepping this recipe. I never ate it, it didn’t appeal to me. After she passed I had a 36lbs turkey to stuff, so I asked my uncle to share this with me; the instructions above were largely a copy/paste of his words verbatim. Because of the effort (it took 3.5 loaves of bread!) I thought I should give it a try and have been eating it ever since!
We made this last thanksgiving and it was super well received. I omitted the apple sauce, included the chopped apple, and added sliced almonds to the mix.