Corn Bread Dressing

George Washington Vanderbilt II loved the maize breadstuff dressing made by Ellen Davis, a navigator hired successful 1899 to enactment astatine Biltmore, his Asheville, N.C., estate. This look derives from Davis's original, which calls for "a ample cookware of cornbread utilizing self-rising cornmeal mix" and buttermilk biscuits made with lard. It accompanied Vanderbilt's favourite roast turkey.

The maize breadstuff constituent is adapted from a bundle of Washington marque stone-ground self-rising cornmeal. The look calls for baking canned buttermilk biscuits, but consciousness escaped to usage homemade ones. If your turkey banal is salty, sensation the dressing earlier adding the 1/2 spoon of brackish that's called for successful the recipe.

The maize breadstuff and biscuits tin beryllium made 2 days successful advance, covered and stored astatine country temperature. The dressing tin beryllium prepped the time earlier and baked conscionable earlier serving.

From cookbook writer and erstwhile cook David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  340

• Fat

  14 g

• Saturated Fat

  6 g

• Carbohydrates

  39 g

• Sodium

  780 mg

• Cholesterol

  180 mg

• Protein

  12 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer and erstwhile cook David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

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