Pepperidge Farm or Bells?

[boston bean]

I use to be a pepperidge farm gal, but switched to bells.

Bells is just tastier and it is easier to get the right texture.

I like my stuffing on the dry side, and with pepperidge farm, it harder to get it right.

I know there are a million different stuffing recipes, but for bag or boxed, these two are probably the most widely used.

Which is would/do you use?

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[Little Star]

1. Isn't Bell's more of a southern brand?...

I'll take Pepperidge Farm, tyvm. lol

[grasswire]

9. Bell's is an old New England company, I think. nt

[Little Star]

10. Ssshhhh. I was just trying to rile everyone up. lol

[LWolf]

2. Neither.

It's not that hard to make my own.

[OriginalGeek]

3. I've never heard of Bell's

we use Stove-top when we make it ourselves but what I prefer is my MIL's homemade cornbread stuffing.

When we were first married I was 22 and still only half a person and didn't know half the crap I thought I did. One thing was I was a very picky eater and I did not like onions so my MIL would always make a small pan of dressing just for me without onions.

26 years and about 120 pounds later I've grown up some and found out her stuffing was perfect the way she regularly made it (along with a lot of other things) but now she's not able to cook for us like she used to. I'm just glad my tastes changed in time to enjoy most of her cooking the way it was meant to be before she got too old to do it.

[UTUSN]

4. I did the unthinkable and modified mother's/grandmother's recipe with Pepperidge yrs ago

They would used day old toasted white/French bread for crumbling. After the first years when I took the recipes as sacred texts, I began to do my Hippie-discovers-All-anew thing and made changes, like, for the potato salad, leaving the peel on. So, with the dressing, which is a pork based deal for us and the best part of the whole meal, I substituted herb Peppridge wheat/white crumbs and haven't looked back since.

That said, can somebody tell me why the bread crumbs are first soaked in cold water and squeezed?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. Pepperidge Farm

I like the flavor.

[femmocrat]

6. I never heard of Bell's.

I make my own from actual bread, butter, onions, celery, broth and fresh herbs. It's easy, but not instant.

[gkhouston]

7. If I make it at all, I make it from scratch (bread, onions, celery, broth, butter, seasonings),

form it into balls (about the size of a tennis ball) and bake it. Slightly crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

Okay, now I'm regretting not making dressing this year.

[grasswire]

8. I didn't know Bell's makes stuffing

My grandmother (from New England) always used Bell's poultry seasoning. I love the little paper box with the turkey on the side -- just looking at it takes me back to her kitchen.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. I've never seen Bells or PF in a box.

I use PF in the clear plastic bags. One bag of herb flavored, one bag of cornbread stuffing, chicken broth, a stick of butter, 6 mashed up hardboiled eggs, chopped onions sauteed in butter, poultry seasoning, herbs. Bake uncovered in a 4 qt. Corning Ware dutch oven.

Stove Top is total crap.

Never cook your stuffing IN the turkey--you can get food poisoning that way.