Sage Dressing

FROM: The Recipe Box on display at the Canton Township Historical Museum, Canton, Michigan (Donated: 1984), circa 1921.

Photo: cmurtaugh

Sage Dressing

Bread, soaked, 12 cups

Salt, 2 and 1/2 tablespoons

Pepper, 3/4 teaspoon

Chopped celery, 1 and 1/2 cups

Onion, chopped, 4 tablespoons

Butter, melted, 3/4 cup

Leaf sage, 1 and 1/2 tablespoons

Soak dry bread in water until soft. Drain off excess water and measure, add one and one-half tablespoons slat, pepper, leaf sage, chopped celery and onion, melted butter. Then mix together. Rub remaining tablespoon salt inside of turkey before stuffing with dressing.