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[texassunflower]

I have always called it dressing. I have never eaten it inside the bird. It's prepared in a casserole dish with Pepperidge Farm bread crumbs and cornbread. I have never made it because I am not a cook. Praters makes a really good dressing you can buy locally in the United supermarkets in Texas.

[this is my nic]

We do both!  We stuff the turkey with the bread, seasonings, onion and celery and put some of the mixture into a casserole dish to finish in the oven.  That's the only difference between stuffing and dressing!  Stuffing goes in the turkey, dressing doesn't!

Simple.

[this is my nic]

@bobby5 

The PA Dutch filling isn't the bread based stuffing/dressing. As you know, it's made with potatoes!  Delish!  I'm originally from PA!

[Sooner]

My mom always made it with cornbread and Italian seasoning--no sage for her.  It was baked in a pan, and low fat.  

Later in life I encountered something greenish colored, watery, soggy and greasy that came out of a baked turkey.  I took one bite to be polite, but it was very greasy and then the lady said it had raw eggs in it.

Not being keen on a trip to the ER on Turkey Day (you know the inexperienced people were working), I worried the whole meal about that one bite!   I guess I survived!  

[Christie B]

Depends on where it is in relation to the bird! Within = stuffing, without = dressing.

[Carmie]

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@this is my nic wrote:

@bobby5 

The PA Dutch filling isn't the bread based stuffing/dressing. As you know, it's made with potatoes!  Delish!  I'm originally from PA!

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I make it both ways..with and without potatoes

[mspatmac]

For some unknown reason we used stuffing and dressing interchangeably but always in the bird.  Same basic recipe my grandmother made.  My daughter and sisters makes it the same way too.  Logically though stuffing in the bird, dressing oven baked.  I figure my grandmother, mother myself, my kids, grandkids & my sisters have all survived over many many years eating it from the inside the bird so in it will go again this year.  However you do it, enjoy, who cares what it's called 

[RedTop]

Dressing, always and forever for this WV gal.   Both sides of my family always shaped the dressing in patties and cooked it in a hot oven (400) on a greased baking sheet, so the outside was brown and crispy, and the inside soft.   The turkey cavity was full of a quartered apple, an onion, and celery.

My husbands mother and grandmother made their dressing similar to my family, but cooked it in the turkey.  So I was married before I ever tried dressing baked inside the turkey; hot moist dressing just didn’t do it for me.   My FIL wanted to try dressing my way, so until my MIL passed, she always had plates of both on the table.   

[Bridgegal]

@blackhole99 

Are you from the Philly area?   My late MIL called it that; and that is where she was from and lived.  I'd never heard it called filling.  It was and is dressing.  No one ever stuffed the turkey with it in my family.  

And it had better be cornbread, sage and onion dressing.

[shoekitty]

Stuffing goes IN the bird

dressing goes ON the bird