Paula Deen's Down-Home Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipe - Beard and Bonnet

Ingredients

• 7 eggs (5 for dressing, 2 for cornbread)
• 7 cups chicken stock
• 8 tbsps butter (melted)
• 1 cup self-rising cornmeal
• ½ cup self-rising flour
• 7 slices oven-dried white bread
• 2 cups celery (chopped)
• 1 large onion (chopped)
• 1 sleeve saltine crackers (crushed)
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• 2 tbsps vegetable oil
• 1 tsp salt (to taste)
• 1 tsp sage (optional)
• 1 tbsp poultry seasoning (optional)
• Freshly ground black pepper (to taste)