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Sausage and Apple Stuffing

I have made my own Lugano sausage for the past few years for the lack of there being a decent one on the market. Discovering Taylor and Jones has been a god send as they produce fresh hand made sausages in natural skins, making at least 35 different varieties.

Taylor and Jones, Hantverkargatan 12

  Turkey Stuffing

Uses: Turkey Stuffing

This is a new recipe for me. Normally I make plain bread stuffing. You can do that as well by leaving out the sausage and apples. But try this it is really good. Made half the amount and use it for stuffing a chicken.

10 to 12 - (1.4 liters or 6 cups) Slices of plain white bread (Roast and Toast) Wonder bread) cut into 1cm or 1/2 inch cubes and dried in the oven.
335 gr. or 12 oz Good homemade English Lincolnshire sausage (see below for a supplier)
2 eggs beaten and set aside.
100 grams or 4 oz. finely chopped onion (sauteed in one msk. or 1 tbls of butter)
100 grams or 4 oz. (2 stalks) celery finely copped.
30 grams or 1 oz finely chopped parsley (stalks and leaves)
100 grams or 4 oz melted butter.
5.9 dl. or 2 1/2 cups chicken stock or bouillon
1 1/2 msk or 1 1/2 tbls. poultry seasoning (make your own, its easy, click here)
2 medium size apples cut into small cubes (use a granny Smith or something similar)
salt to taste  
freshly grated black pepper be generous
See my notes below for variations:  
   

Assembling the recipe:

Begin by setting the oven to 100°F or , cut up the bread and dry it out in a baking tray. You can also so this by cutting it up the day before and leaving it out over night.

Prepare all the ingredients, cut up the celery and onions, saute the onions, beat the eggs, melt the butter, chop the parsley, and cut up the apples.

In a very large mixing bowl but in the bread crumbs and all sprinkle over all dry ingredients. Hold the salt until the very end of the preparation.

Take the sausages and remove the skins, then with a fork mash the sausages until chunky and toss into the bread cubes and mix well. They like to clump up and go back together so keep and eye out that they are not too big.

Another way is to leave the skins and slice them onto disks and use them that way, I prefer the above way.

Pour over the beaten eggs and mix well. Then pour over the melted butter.

Add the chicken stock a bit at a time mixing the whole mixture between additions until all the cubes of bread are softened and the liquid is evenly distributed. You might not need all of it and you don't want the cubes to be soggy.

Now the salt, if you used home made unsalted chicken stock you will need 3 tsk. or 3 teas. if you used bouillon cubes you won't need much. Salt to taste

Simply stuff this mixture into your turkey and sew or skewer the bird closed. This should give you enough for 1 large bird, stuffing both the chest cavity and the neck cavity as well.

Then prepare the bird as in my instructions for Roasting a Turkey.


Notes:

 

I love stuffing and its not a real roast turkey without it. As for the sausage I use large link fresh English Lincolnshire sausages bought at Taylor and Jones (Hantverkargatan 12 - 08-651 29 10)

You can very easily alter this recipe to suit your own tastes. Add 1/2 cup of dried soaked apricots and/or prunes chopped up. Nuts (chopped walnuts, hazelnuts or pecans) can make a good addition as well.

A note about the sausage: I am using an English Lincolnshire style sausage freshly made. They are mild and are similar to what we know of in the north eastern part of the US as being close to our breakfast sausages in taste. Not quite so spicy.

You could if you like use vacuum pack Italian Lugano sausages but I think they might be a bit too strong. I would be afraid that it might get too porky and you don't really want to change the taste of the turkey.

I have made my own Lugano sausage for the past few years for the lack of there being a decent one on the market. Discovering Taylor and James has been a god send as they produce fresh hand made sausages in natural skins, making at least 35 different varieties.


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