It never caught on with the rest of us.
Dad also enjoyed bread and gravy, maybe at the end of a meal. Sis Gloria and I did adopt that one, just a slice of bread with gravy over it.
Bread stuffing
Stuffing for turkey is mostly bread. We never had it at home, probably because Mom never roasted a turkey. That was Aunt Betty’s specialty for the Neal clan get-togethers. Someone must have made bread stuffing because I always slathered both the turkey and dressing with gravy.
On *my first Thanksgiving away from home (Iowa), we lived in a ten-foot wide trailer when my Favorite Guy was stationed in Idaho. I roasted my very first turkey there. November 23,1967, I recorded in my diary that it “did much for my cooking morale.” I’d also made a pumpkin pie and cranberry salad, served on our Melmac dishes. No stuffing mentioned, but I added that to the Thanksgiving menu in later years.
One year Guy said that I could skip the dressing, that he didn’t need any. But by then it was a must for me, especially with a dollop of gravy. And leftovers the next day, with turkey and gravy. Bliss!
Well, a couple of decades ago I had to give up gluten. I don’t have Celiac Disease but eating anything with gluten makes me so sick. I tried gluten-free stuffing, but GF bread is not something you look forward to. The stuffing was awful. So, no more stuffing.
It dawned on me that stuffing is just dressed up bread and gravy. It’s no wonder I liked it.
Scalloped Chicken
Come to think of it, the Scalloped Chicken recipe served by the Dexter Presbyterian for Memorial Day dinners was the ultimate savory bread and gravy concoction. Have a look at the recipe here and see if you don’t agree.
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*Guy’s first Thanksgiving away from home was spent in Air Traffic Control Tech School in Biloxi, Mississippi.