Lallah's Thanksgiving Turkey Dressing

My wife's (Betty Drafts Shaw) wonderful mother, Lallah Lindler Drafts, routinely oven-baked four (4) loaves of bread each day in her wood stove. In today's world in Lexington County, S. C., the bread that one can buy that most resembles Granny's bread is baked daily at Grecian Gardens restaurant in West Columbia. The dressing is baked in two baking dishes, and the finished product is a rectangular sheet of baked dressing remindful of a pizza sheet.

• Meat taste: 7-8 cups of turkey or chicken broth.
• Taste enhancer #1: liberal salt & coarse-ground pepper to taste.
• Taste enhancer #2: one teaspoon of sage.
• Taste enhancer #3: one tablespoon of poultry seasoning.
  
• Chopped onions: 2 large white onions diced.
• Eggs: 2 large uncooked eggs in the shell.
• Giblets (?): if with Thanksgiving cooking you have a few cooked chicken or turkey livers & gizzards left, you can slice & dice a few into this recipe.
• Thickener #1: 2 large loaves of Grecian Garden bread, slightly coarsely diced.
• Thickener #2: one cup of cooked white corn grits.
• Ingredient combining bowl: any type of 2 gallon (4 quart) bowl can be used.
• Baking dishes: we use two (2) 16 x 11 x 1 inch Pampered Chef "stoneware" dishes which we spray with Pam just prior to adding the mixture.
  

PROCESS: Once all of the above is prepped, crack the 2 eggs into the large bowl and add all of the prepped stuff and stir. Oven should be preheated to 300 degrees F. Carefully add mixture to the center of the two Pam-sprayed baking dishes & slowly spread mixture toward pan edges until it barely touches the edges. Place both filled pans into the pre-heated oven and bake until it is as browned as you like it (between 1 to 2 hours). Remove from oven and allow to cool down (the cooked sheet will average about 3/8 inches thick. Then, using a utensil of your choice, free all edges of the baked dressing from the baking dish. Use (1) a pizza cutting wheel to score/cut the sheet into about 2 by 3 inch rectangles with (2) scissors to make any final cuts to cleanly separate each rectangle. Serve in a breadbasket.

Thanksgiving: our family dinner for Thanksgiving (2018) over at Betty's daughter's house consisted of the above dressing, rice with giblet gravy, baked turkey and baked ham, sweet potato casserole, corn casserole, deviled eggs, mac & cheese casserole, and several deserts. This continues a central South Carolina Thanksgiving tradition of massive over-eating of delicious food!

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(posted 22 November 2018)