DAY Recipe

“The day before Thanksgiving, my grandmother would make trays of corn bread for this stuffing,” says food writer Janet Fletcher. “We grandkids would crack the pecans for the stuffing; the nuts came from the trees in her back yard.”

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Jim Fobel, cookbook author, says, “My mother always added lots of sage and nutmeg to her stuffing. I loved those flavors when I was a kid, and I still put them in the stuffings that I make today.”

Makes 10 [...]

Mary Risley, the director of Tante Marie’s Cooking School, says, “I come from a family of Connecticut Yankees, and when I was growing up, I spent every Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ eighteenth-century home, which was right across from a turkey farm. I’m not quite sure how, but something in that experience inspired this recipe. (Maybe [...]

Bruce Aidells, founder of Aidells Sausage Company, says, “Stuffing was the most important part of my family’s holiday menu. The turkey was always overcooked, but the stuffing was moist and delicious. We usually had two, sometimes three stuffings, but I leaned toward the kind with sausage. It was meaty and spicy, just like this one.”

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Makes 6 to 10 servings.

INGREDIENTS
turkey:

1 14- to 16-pound fresh turkey

1 cup coarse salt

2 granny smith apples, quartered

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon allspice

1 orange, quartered#1 basting sauce (to use at start of roasting):

1 cup unsalted butter

1/4 cup fresh orange juice

1/4 [...]