Can gluey "stuffing/dressing" be salvaged?

11 years ago

One of our guests made dressing (when it's stuffed into the bird, we call it stuffing, so outside the bird, it's dressing) for our family & friends Thanksgiving dinner.

It was put together on the stovetop and then kept warm in a crock pot.

it was ... to put it kindly... not the best. It was too wet and gluey.

She left the leftover stuffing with us. I tried patting it out onto a jelly roll pan (the stuffing is about 1/2 inch thick) and put it in the oven to dry out using a 325 temp.

No luck after 25 minutes.

I cut a couple squares out of it and flipped them over, and put the pan back in the over for about an hour. The edges are edible and nicely dried out--only on the edges, but the remainder of the pan is full of wet and gluey dressing.

Can it be salvaged in any way or should I just give up and toss it? I'm kinda leaning toward tossing it. So disappointed! We usually love her dressing but this year, ick.

Smiles,

Sooz

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doucanoe
11 years ago
That sounds like my mom's dressing/stuffing! LOL
Every year I politely take a tablespoon full of mom's stuffing and choke it down. It's pretty bad.

I would probably toss it. Once it's "gluey" I don't think there is any turning back.

Linda
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
11 years ago
Use it to make a meatloaf.

dcarch
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Here's a simple recipe for a savory (as opposed to sweet) cornbread which I find works very well as a base for dressing. It's from Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads. I usually leave out the salt if I'm using it for dressing, though. Yellow cornmeal makes a dressing that is slightly more visually appealing than white, IMHO, but either tastes fine. Freshness of the corn meal is more important than color, so buy your corn meal at a store that seems to have a good turnover of it; that's probably not at a gourmet store, but rather at a store serving a less snooty clientele. You can add whatever you like to your dressing, and as a general guide I find one batch of the cornbread below works well with about a pound of bulk sausage (hot, mild or whatever), one large onion, some celery and mushrooms, then moistened with chicken stock. You can, of course, expand this as needed; a quadruple recipe just fits in a 5 qt mixer bowl. 2 eggs, room temperature (if the eggs are straight from the fridge, put them in a bowl of hot tap water for a few minutes) 2 cups buttermilk, room temperature (you can nuke it a little to take the chill off if need be) 1 tsp baking soda 2 cups yellow cornmeal (but white is okay, too) 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Preheat oven and greased baking utensil (skillet or 9 x 9 pan) to 450° while mixing batter. In a small bowl beat the eggs and mix in the buttermilk. In a mixer bowl, mix the baking soda, cornmeal and salt. Pour in the egg-buttermilk mixture and mix well until smooth. Pour batter into the preheated pan, and return the pan to the oven for 20 to 25 minutes. It's done when a knife inserted into the center of the pan comes out clean & dry. Note: if you’re making this as a basis for cornbread dressing, leave out the salt. The sausage and other ingredients you add will have plenty of salt for the dressing.
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sushipup1
11 years ago
Break it up and heat in a frying pan?
mom2wildboys
11 years ago
This might sound crazy, but I just saw a video on making a waffle with leftover stuffing. You never know! It might be just the thing.

Here is a link that might be useful: Stuffing waffle!
lindac
11 years ago
Likely she used bad supermarket bread...the kind you can roll into pills!
It has no substance and no gluten no form....feed it to the birds.
Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
11 years ago
I wouldn't waste good food on bad food and would throw it out. It's ok!
I can't feed anything to the birds (unless it's in the feeder w/baffle) as my dogs would eat it, btw.

Ohhh, I edited!

This post was edited by Bumblebeez on Sat, Nov 24, 12 at 21:15
annie1992
11 years ago
I mom2wildboys might be onto something, I'd plop some in the old waffle iron and see what happens. What's the worst that happens? You waste some stuffing that you're going to toss out anyway if you can't save?

I'm seeing a "chicken and waffles" kind of thing here, some leftover turkey, cranberry sauce, "dressing waffles". Yeah....

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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
11 years ago
No! Do not throw it away! Absolutely not.

As I suggest, use it to make meatloaf. Gluey stuffing is perfect for making meatloaf.

Lots and lots of recipes if you Google.

dcarch
sooz
Original Author
11 years ago
DH made "pancakes" out of it. Nasty. Nasty stuff. Put enough maple syrup on them....put enough gravy on them....you think they'd be okay. Nope, still nasty.

We have SO MUCH of this glue--I mean, dressing-- that it's gonna take a *whole lot* of ground beef/ground turkey to make the addition of the glue, well, palatable!

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions!
Smiles,
Sooz
annie1992
11 years ago
sooz, if it's that bad, you might not be able to save it. It becomes a diminishing return if you keep adding good ingredients to it and end up tossing it all out anyway.

Annie
teresa_nc7
11 years ago
I think it needs to be crumbled up or chopped finely to break up the gluey consistency. You must change its form, then dry it out - or I would mix it into meatloaf, meatballs, or add more cornbread or dried cubed bread, mix all with just a little broth to moisten and gently pile it into a casserole dish - DO NOT PACK IT DOWN! - that's what made it gluey in the first place, then bake again.

Turkey Stuffing Bake
~leftover stuffing/dressing- put on the bottom of a greased casserole
~chopped turkey meat or chicken- mix into gravy, bechamel sauce, or cream of chicken soup and pour over stuffing in casserole - add some grated Swiss cheese if desired
~top with more crumbled stuffing
~ bake at 375 for 30 to 40 minutes

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