Oyster Dressing

Ingredients

• 4 Sweet Grown Alabama eggs
• 2 cups Sweet Grown Alabama buttermilk
• 1 cup Sweet Grown Alabama whole milk
• 1/4 cup melted butter (room temperature)
• 3 1/2 cups Sweet Grown Alabama corn meal, sifted
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp salt
• 8 cups crumbled cornbread (made from ingredients listed above)
• 1/2 lb. Sweet Grown Alabama sausage
• Cajun mirepoix, fine diced (1 medium onion, 1 medium green bell pepper, 2 ribs of celery)
• 2 Sweet Grown Alabama eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp Sweet Grown Alabama animal fat, melted (bacon, duck, butter, or shortening)
• 2 1/4 cups Sweet Grown Alabama chicken stock
• 2 tbsp fresh thyme, picked, stems removed
• 2 tbsp parsley, chopped
• 24 shelled Sweet Grown Alabama oysters, with reserved liquor
• 1/4 cup reserved Sweet Grown Alabama oyster liqour
• Salt
• pepper