Easy Thanksgiving Giblet Gravy

Ingredients:

• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1 cup diced chicken (including neck meat and liver)
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon diced pimento
• 4 tablespoons flour, mixed with enough water to make a paste
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

Cooking Instructions:

Let the chicken broth reach a boiling point in a 2-quart saucepan. Add the chicken and stir flour paste gradually into the boiling mixture until thickened to the consistency desired, adding more or less flour paste as needed. Add pepper, pimento and eggs. Stir.

This is delicious over cornbread dressing or toast and can also be made using turkey.

Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Stuffing

Ingredients:

• 6 cups dry bread, cut into small pieces
• 2 cups corn bread, crushed into coarse crumbs
  
• 1/4 cup finally minced onion
• 1/4 cup celery stalks, finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme or marjoram
• 1/2 teaspoon sage
• 1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3/4 to 1-1/4 cups turkey stock
• salt

Cooking Instructions:

1. Crumble bread into small pieces.
2. Let dry in 200° oven.
3. Mix bread pieces with corn bread crumbs.
4. Add onions, celery and herbs.
5. Add small amount of stock to moisten.
6. Add butter or margarine, mixing well.
7. Add eggs.
8. Add salt to taste.
9. Add more stock, using just enough until the stuffing holds together.

Makes enough to stuff a 12-lb. turkey.

To test consistency:

Take a handful of the mixture and press it gently to form a ball. Drop it on a plate. If it holds together in a ball, but breaks apart as it falls the amount of moisture is right.