My mother always stuffed the turkey and also baked dressing in a casserole dish because she always made a ton. I never liked the dressing as much as the stuffing, even though they were the same exact recipe.
Using a dressing recipe for stuffing would be equally bad. The mistake is in using the same recipe for both. Stuffing remains moist, dressing gets crisp around the edges and on top. The ingredients and flavors that work for one won’t necessarily work for the other.
They may have started out the same but technically once that dressing was stuffed inside the turkey, became stuffing and absorbed the juices of the bird as it cooked, they were no longer the exact same recipe.
And that's why you preferred stuffing over dressing.
:-)
Stuffing in the bird. Excess stuffing in a casserole. They get mixed together and served as combined.
My family has always done the same. Mainly because the turkey doesn’t hold enough for everyone.