sf > wrote in news:srktq0hhe5o4shu24vlge8mncb3k0aafvt@
4ax.com:

> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:21:37 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> > wrote:
>
>> The mixture itself is interchangeable, but when it's used to stuff the
>> bird, it's stuffing. If it's baked in a casserole, it's dressing.
>>
>> I think a lot of today's confusion is caused by the company (Stove Top)
>> that calls dressing, "stuffing." Which it's NOT! (Sorry, that was me,
>> channeling my mom)
>
> Okay, I guess my problem is that when I was a kid no one I
> knew ever baked extra stuffing and called it dressing... in
> fact there was NO extra stuffing.
>
> As a grown up, I know people who bake extra stuffing -
> outside the bird - which they call stuffing or dressing...
> but there is no obvious differentiation between them. Hence
> my confusion.
>
>
>
> sf

Actually, the amount of liquid or moisture used is one distinction some
people make. Stuffing to go in the bird is often made with less liquid
because it absorbs moisture from the bird itself. Dressing baked in a
casserole usually needs more liquid since it tends to become drier as it
bakes. Then again, some people don't treat one differently than the other.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

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