Can't find the thread I did last Thanksgiving but I can reproduce it here:
Been doing turkeys this way for 40 years, and got it from my parents.
Do it pretty much the same way, except 1st, instead of using packaged broth, I take the neck, heart, gizzard and liver and simmer for about ½ hr in a pan of water w/a little salt and pepper:
This makes the stock.
Then, chop up onion, celery:
Fry up 2 lbs. of Fassett's Homemade Breakfast Sausage (which we get together the weekend before and grind up about 10-12 lbs of it):
(just starting to cook, still raw)
Melt 4 sticks of real butter in the microwave:
pour in with sausage and onion and celery and let cook 5 min. until veggies are starting to soften and cook down:
using real croutons (not Pepperidge Farms[emoji]174[/emoji] mushy stuff) I spread them out, 3 or 4 boxes, in the turkey roaster pan, and pour mixture in and stir a bit:
Then add 2 or more cups of giblet broth to moisten (and we enjoy eating the giblets and neck!)
Shake poultry seasoning all over the top of the pan; that is just the right amount, then mix it all together
Then (loosely packed) stuff the neck and bowel cavities:
Which uses about half the stuffing. Then, the easiest thing in the world.....
put all the rest in a crockpot and start on high for an hour, then turn down to low and cook until the turkey is done!
where the neck cavity is stuffed:
perfectly done crockpot dressing!
Grandma with kids after a big meal!