Cranberry~ cornbread & sausage stuffing

10 Litres

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1⅓poundsItalian sausage - hot
2⅔poundsItalian sausage - sweet
1cupButter - salted
½cupOlive oil
4largesOnions; fine chop
16Celery ribs; fine chop
8Carrots; peel, fine chop
8cupsCranberries; coarse chop
¾cupMaple syrup
¾cupRosemary - fresh, chopped or 1/4c dried rosemary
½cupMarmalade
24cupsCornbread - day old,crumbled

Directions

Cranberries may be fresh or frozen. Remove casings from italian sausages. 1. Cook italian sausage with salted butter and oil in two frying pans and crumble as fine as possible with potato masher. Drain in sieve and catch drippings. Transfer drained crumbled sausage to large mixing bowl. 2. Saut‚ onions with reserved drippings until translucent. Drain in sieve and catch drippings. Transfer trained onions to mixing bowl with sausage. 3. Saut‚ celery and carrots with reserved drippings until translucent. Transfer celery and carrots with drippings to mixing bowl with sausage and onions. 4. Add cranberries, maple syrup, rosemary and marmalade, and mix very well.

Add crumbled cornbread and mix very well. You might need two big bowls. This stuffing can be baked inside a turkey, or in a separate pan.