Crock Pot Bread & Sausage Stuffing

Hey! Reggie 's mom ! I just happened across your recipe here for sausage stuffing and what a surprise -- this is pretty much the sYame recipe I always made with my mother while growing up ( I'm 70 ) It was my great-grandmother's recipe! We had to leave 2 loaves of bread out on the kitchen counter Wednesday afternoon and overnight to get "stale"--we had a large family. .Then my mom got up so early on Thanksgiving morning to start all the cooking. The stuffing was always most important to get done because you couldn't begin the turkey until the stuffing was in it. While she had her tea kettle heating, she brought the massive bird to the kitchen sink and started rummaging around in its big "hole," pulling things out while I watched. What she got was a collection of parts called " giblets" which she then put on the stove to boil until cooked. Next came sitting at the large kitchen table(I had eight younger siblings and the table sat all of us)to start on those 2 dried-up loaves of bread. We had to tear them into tiny pieces by hand , filling up a huge stockpot. No store-bought bread cubes in those days. Then everything in the recipes is the same until mixing the onion/celery with the bread-- here my gr.grandmother's had added mushrooms to saute with the onions--next, she cracked an egg over the mountain of bread and such (she said it helped hold it together)--then the hot broth she poured over it all was the water the giblets had boiled in, and she chopped up the giblets very finely and put them in.And of course it didn't go in a crock pot. Back then , we washed our hands again then squished everything together with the sausage until it was mixed really well. When it was time to cook the turkey, my mom took handfuls of stuffing over and over again to fill the bird--it was fun to watch. Anyways,your recipe brought me happy memories.Thank you. Kathy

How many cups does 1 French loaf make? I am using a variety of breads so I'm not sure how many cups of cubed bread I need.

I need the amount you need for garlic powder, pepper, salt. Also what type of bread. One last question recipe says it's ready in 6 hours 15 minutes but only is in slow cooker for 3 hours can you clarify this for me? I have never made homemade dressing and would love for this to be a hit thank you!

I was thinking of making 2 dressings for Thanksgiving so I was going to make one very similar with cornbread beca5my other dish is made with white bread. What do you think?

I forgot to ask the question -- my family recipe is so old, from my grandmother's mother, that I wondered if you tweaked your own old recipe? Kathy