The answer can be found on the stuffing mix packet.
Stove Top stuffing mix is a prepackaged mix of stuffing that one cooks on the stove with water and a fat, typically butter. It was introduced by General Foods, and is currently manufactured by the Kraft Foods company.
Yes, they do! It is called Safeway Stuffing Mix... and a couple varieties are available/ seasoned or plain... Hope that helps!
one you make yourself
no not at all
Add more bread to the stuffing and mix well. You may need to adjust the other ingredients too.
If you are making a stuffing mix then you would normally add breadcrumbs to herbs and mix together. You could add canned broth to it, it isn't as good as fresh but would work.
Any contents in the bird cavity should reach the temperature that is recommended for the bird itself. I.e., if you are cooking a turkey with stuffing, both the turkey AND stuffing should reach 165 deg. F.
The food-safe internal temperature of any size whole turkey, is 1700F / 770C (without stuffing), and 1800F / 820C (with stuffing). Some health authorities also now recommend cooking the stuffing separately, for safety reasons, to a temperature of 1650F / 740C.
To make the stuffing with sausage....take whatever recipe you want to use and just add your UNCOOKED sausage to the mix. You can used Jimmy Dean or whatever.
The FDA recommends cooking stuffing separately from the turkey because the interior of the body cavity doesn't reach a high enough temperature to kill bacteria, which may cause food poisoning when the stuffing is eaten. If you try to remedy the problem by cooking at a higher temperature, the meat becomes dry and overcooked. Therefore, the recommended solution is to cook the stuffing in a separate casserole dish.
I have always prepared my stuffing the day before and I do use eggs...I would imagine a few days would be about the same.