What is National Stuffing Day?
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, November 21st is an excellent day for National Stuffing Day on National Stuffing Day. Since we are already planning on Thanksgiving dinner, we are already thinking about the delectable turkey stuffing that is a staple part of Thanksgiving dinner.
Some cooks prefer to stuff the bird with crusts of bread, vegetables, herbs, and spices. Some people prefer to make a similar dish alongside the turkey by using the drippings to moisten the dish. Either way, each dish is a personal preference or family tradition. The first is a stuffing, but the second is referred to as a dressing.
The traditional turkey stuffing consists of bread cubes or crumbs mixed with onions, celery, salt, and pepper. Further spices and herbs, such as summer savory, sage, or poultry seasoning, add flavor and variety. Other dishes include sausage, hamburger, tofu, oysters, egg, rice, apple, raisins, or other dried fruit.
In the Roman cookbook Apicius "De Coquinaria," the first documented stuffing recipes appeared. This cookbook's bulking dish included vegetables, herbs and spices, nuts, and spelt (an old cereal). Some dishes also called for diced liver and other organ meats.
Many types of meat are often stuffed once deboned and making a pouch or cutting a slit in them, in addition to stuffing the body cavity of poultry and fish. Pork chops, meatloaf, meatballs, chicken breast, lamb chops, and beef tenderloin are just a few examples of other meats that are commonly packed.
