MeMaw's Celery Stuffing

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This is a Knight Family staple at holidays. My grandmother was a true southern lady and cook. She always made the best food and enough of it to feed an army. My grandmother never wrote the recipe that I know of, but she showed her maid, who showed me how to make it. You can stuff it into celery, make it into the best cheeseball ever, make it into a sandwich, almost like pimento cheese, or just eat it out of the jar.
You'll find your friends asking for the recipe and your family asking for the leftovers.

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  • 40
  • Average
  • 60 mins
  • Average budget

Ingredients

  • 3lbs hoop cheese or mild cheddar (the majority of prep time is spent grating this on a fine plain)
  • 1lb pecans, shelled
  • 1 large jar of sweet relish, with the juice
  • 1c (+/- for consistency) Miracle Whip Salad Dressing
  • 1t cayenne pepper

Preparation

Step 1

Grate the cheese on the finest plain available. Keep in mind that this will be turned into a cheese spread.
Chop the pecans into a fine powder. Pecan meal, if you have it available at your local store, will also suffice.

Step 2

Mix all of the ingredients thoroughly.

Step 3

You can store this in mason jars in the refigerator for a few weeks. My grandmother would always send us home with a couple of pickle jars full. They never lasted more than a week.

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I use my stand mixer with the dough paddle to mix it, but a wooden spoon works just as well.

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