It won’t be long til Thanksgiving and time for cornbread dressing. I can eat it all year . . we love it! My grandma and my mom always made the best cornbread dressing. The first time I ever tried to make it, I was visiting Vince in Georgia for Thanksgiving. That had to be 23 years ago. I had never made dressing but I was determined to make a good impression. I called my mom . . “How do I make cornbread dressing?” She told me everything but when she got to the part about adding broth, she said something like “you want it to be wetter than you think it needs to be.” Huh? I didn’t think anything because not only had I never made dressing but I had never watched mom or my grandma make it. I don’t remember how that first cornbread dressing turned out .. not too bad I suppose since Vince is still around.
Yesterday when I made it, I got it a bit too salty and that resulted in a little creativity. I knew that if something like gravy or beans were too salty, you could throw in some potatoes and the potatoes would absorb the salt. I always then fish out the potatoes and throw them away but that wasn’t an option with the dressing.
I peeled and grated a couple of potatoes into my dressing and normally, I don’t add eggs but decided to add three eggs. It was the best dressing I’ve ever made!
Lunch
From now on, I’ll be adding grated potatoes and eggs to my dressing. I love it when I’m able to save a less than perfect dish and I especially love it when I can improve upon something that I thought was close to perfect already.
Sherrill says
Judy, you are genius!! I never in a million years would’ve done that to try to salvage dressing! I would’ve thrown it out and had something else! LOL
April R says
I still can’t make my mother’s cornbread dressing. She doesn’t have a set measured out recipe and just knows it by sight and taste. I can’t get the seasoning or consistency right. She does use eggs though.
Linda in NE says
When I was growing up we always had roast duck for the holidays. Grandma & then mom, made a dressing with stale bread cubes, sliced apples, raisins, a little bit of sugar, an egg and hot water to moisten. I hadn’t thought of it in years, but I do remember it was good. I also remember that I made it once for Christmas dinner, a snowstorm was moving in and my parents, brother, uncle and some cousins spent the day moving cattle about 8-9 miles from one place to the other before the storm got too bad. I know they ate the Christmas dinner I cooked as a 16 yr. old and nobody died. So I guess it was OK.
Ava Crotinger says
I love dressing when it’s made the way my mother made it. I have to try yours.