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Spent a little time doing a web search this morning. I’ll check with my sisters but they all seem to have crs and my mom was one of those who kept most recipes in her head. I think this is pretty close to my mom’s stuffing

Cracker Stuffing for 12-14 pound Turkey

4 sleeves saltine crackers
2 stalks celery diced
1 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk

With the crackers still in their sleeves, crush them with your hands (easier to crush this way, and it keeps your hands cleaner) then empty the sleeves into a large bowl. Chop celery into small pieces and add to the crackers. In a frying pan, saute the butter, onion and black pepper until the onions are tender, about 5 minutes. No need to add salt since you are using saltine crackers. Add cooked onions to the crackers and mix well. Add eggs and mix well. Add milk a little at a time (you might not use all of the milk), until the cracker mix is moistened. Cracker mix should form a ball which you can hold in your hand. When stuffing a turkey with cracker stuffing it does not expand, so you want to pack it in tight. With traditional bread stuffing you would pack it in the turkey loosely. When the turkey is ready, you pull out the cracker stuffing in one big chunk and slice it. Also great on a turkey sandwich the next day!

http://freshfromoregon.com/2014/11/roasted-turkey-with-homemade-cracker-stuffing/

I don’t recall my mom trying to get the stuffing out on one piece.