Stuffing

In cooking, stuffing, also known as dressing, is usually a mixture of various ingredients used to fill a cavity in another food item. The term stuffing also refers to the process of filling this cavity with said mixture.

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Stuffing may well be one of the oldest cooking techniques, since the body cavity of a game animal becomes suitable for stuffing as soon as its internal organs have been removed. The Roman cookbook De re coquinaria by Apicius contains recipes for stuffed chicken, hare, pig, and dormouse. Most of the stuffings described consist of vegetables, herbs and spice, nuts, spelt (an old cereal), and frequently contain chopped liver, brains, and other organ meat.

Body cavity: A body cavity is an aspect of a number of basic animal body plans (phyla) that incorporate a central body cavity, known as a coelom. The coelom contains major organs, including the digestive system, heart, kidneys, etc. The coelom has two openings for the input of food and ejection of waste. It is f...

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