Livingston Family Cornbread Dressing - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cut up hen or large fryer
2 c. self-rising meal
1/3 c. self-rising flour
3 eggs
1 c. buttermilk (more if needed)
1 medium chopped onion
1/2 c. chopped celery (optional)
3 boiled eggs, chopped
black pepper to taste
salt to taste
10 slices white bread

Preparation

Cook hen in large pot with salted water until tender.
You will need a lot of broth. While hen is cooking, mix up cornbread as follows:
Mix meal, flour, eggs and buttermilk well.
Add onion and celery.
Bake on 350\u00b0 to 400\u00b0 until browned.
Crumble white bread and put some of the broth over this.
When cornbread is done, mix with white bread.
Add more broth and mix well.
Add chopped boiled eggs and black pepper.
Be sure mixture is almost soupy.
Add deboned hen and bake on 350\u00b0 until it begins to brown lightly.