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Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make
delicious traditional Thanksgiving Day stuffing for your turkey. Now opening up the oven you
can see it has a nice, brown top, and if you want to make sure that it's cooked all the
way through, you just want to stick a toothpick in it. And when it comes out clean then that's
when you know the cornbread is done. So let's take this out and put it on the countertop
in order to cool. Now that our cornbread has been baked and it's been cooled for at least
thirty to sixty minutes, we're going to cut it up and get it ready for making in the stuffing.
Now you want to use stale cornbread. So if your cornbread has been made this morning,
the we can make it stale by sticking it in the oven for a little bit first. Now I'm doing,
is you're going to cut it up into small cubes. You don't want to have huge chunks for the
stuffing otherwise it won't stuff the turkey properly. I'm just cutting it up, and then
I'm going to cut it up into smaller squares. And we probably won't need the entire loaf
of cornbread. We're only going to need about five or six cups of cornbread cubes for the
stuffing. And you'd be amazed at how much or how little cornbread is. So we're going
to measure out the cornbread, make sure those are separated. You can see it doesn't take
very much to fill a cup. So I'm putting them back in the pan because we're going to stick
this right back in the oven so that it dries out a little bit. Now when you're putting
it in the oven in order to dry out, you don't want it at too high of a temperature. So about
three hundred degrees is right because you just want to lightly toast it and dry out
the bread instead of cooking it anymore. Two, and three cups, four, and five, and let's
do six cups just to be on the safe side. There's six cups. You want to make sure that it's
broken up so that more of the surface is exposed to the heat from the oven. And once that's
all broken up, and you can also do this on a cookie sheet. If it's on a cookie sheet
then you want to make sure that it's all spread out. And we're going to stick this right back
in the oven, so back in the center. And then it's going to go for about ten or fifteen
minutes until it's all dried out.