Mom's Holiday Turkey And Dressing

Total Time: 10 hrs Preparation Time: 4 hrs Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• 25 lbs turkey
• 1 turkey heart
• 2 turkey gizzards
• 1 turkey neck
• 1 turkey liver
• 1 medium onion
• 1/4 cup parsley flakes
• 2 bay leaves
• salt and pepper
• 1 -2 bunch celery
• 3 -5 medium onions
• 2 (16 ounce) packages stuffing cubes
• 2 eggs
• salt and pepper
• 1/2 lb oleo
• 64 ounces water

Recipe

• 1 make your dressing the day before your meal.
• 2 remove heart, gizzards, liver and neck from thawed turkey and place in pan with enough water to keep covered while boiling; skim off foam.
• 3 add salt, pepper, onion, parsley flakes and bay leaf.
• 4 cook about 3 hours or until tender; remove from heat; save broth for later.
• 5 depending on size of turkey, grind the celery, onions, heart, gizzards, liver and meat from neck.
• 6 in 10 inch fry pan, fry ground up mixture until water evaporates; cool.
• 7 in a large roaster, using your hands, combine stuffing cubes and eggs with fried mixture; moisten with broth. salt and pepper to taste.
• 8 refrigerate overnight.
• 9 to prepare turkey, stuff both cavities with the dressing and close up.
• 10 melt oleo; pour over turkey.
• 11 cover wings and legs with foil.
• 12 pour remainder of broth on turkey.
• 13 if needed, add water so you have 2 inches of liquid in roaster.
• 14 roast at 375 degrees for 3/4 hour uncovered.
• 15 turn oven down to 325 degrees; cover and continue cooking until legs begin to pull away from turkey.
• 16 baste occasionally.
• 17 from a distance, make sure the little ones get to see that bird coming out of the oven to be basted. it's a real treat for them.
• 18 when done, remove stuffing to serving dish.
• 19 good luck removing turkey from roaster. carve, serve, and give thanks.