Southern Chicken Dressing

• Cornbread
• 2 cups yellow cornmeal
• 1 cup self rising flour
• 2 cups milk
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 egg
• 3-4 tablespoons bacon grease to oil the bottom of skillet
• Southern Chicken Dressing
• 1 pan of cornbread
• 1 loaf of stale Italian bread
• 2 hard boiled eggs
• 1 raw egg
• 4 cups cooked chicken thighs cut into rough cubes
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup chopped onions
• 3-5 teaspoons ground sage
• 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground salt
• 3-4 14 ounce cans of chicken broth

1. Preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
2. Grease bottom of a cast iron skillet with the bacon grease. Set aside.
3. Mix dry ingredients together.
4. Add the oil, egg and milk to the dry ingredients in the bowl. With a hand mixer, combine all ingredients until the batter is smooth.
5. Spoon the batter in the cast iron skillet.
6. Place the skillet in the oven and bake for 45 minutes.
7. Preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
8. Boil 1 cup onions and celery until soft and translucent. Strain the water and set the celery and onions aside in a small bowl.
9. Boil 2 eggs. After boiling, cool and peel. Slice the eggs into 1/4" slices.
10. Cut the pan of cornbread into 1/4 pieces. You might not use all of the pieces. Crumble enough cornbread where it will fill half of a 12" by 9" small roasting pan.
11. Tear apart pieces of the stale Italian bread so they are roughly the size of peas. Full the rest of the roasting pan with the bread. Mix thoroughly with your hands or a large spoon.
12. Add the chicken meat, celery, onions, and sliced eggs to the cornbread/bread mixture. Mix thoroughly.
13. Add 1 can of chicken broth, stir and add another can of chicken broth. If the dressing isn't as moist as you'd like, add more chicken broth.
14. Add rage sage, salt and black pepper. Stir well.
15. Stir in 1 raw egg into the dressing and stir.
16. Place the pan in the preheated oven.
17. Take out the dressing every 30 minutes and scrape the dry sides, so that all areas are cooked. If you like your dressing moist, cook 45-60 minutes or dry for 1 hour to 2 hours.

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/19742-southern-chicken-dressing (may not work)