NASA's Recipe for Space Cornbread Dressing

Space Food: From Squeeze Tubes To Celebrity Chefs

A Thanksgiving day meal fit for an astronaut: NASA-packaged smoked turkey, cornbread dressing, strawberries, tea w/sugar and as-flown cranberry sauce spread. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com.)

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Ingredient	%	Amount (g)	Row 0 - Cell 3
Cornbread, prepared, crumbled	39.50	869.00	12 cups
Chicken broth	40.90	899.80	3 3/4 cups
Onions, chopped	10.47	230.34	2 1/2 cups
Celery, chopped	6.15	135.30	1 1/2 cups
Butter, unsalted	2.52	55.44	1/4 cup
Salt	0.20	4.40	3/4 tsp.
Poultry seasoning	0.11	2.42	1 1/4 tsp.
Black pepper	0.07	1.54	1/2 tsp.
Parsley flakes, dried	0.04	0.88	2 tsp.
Sage, rubbed	0.04	0.88	1 tsp.
Total	100.00	2200.00	Row 11 - Cell 3

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