Corn Meal Mush

Ingredients

• corn meal
• salt
• boiling water
• eggs

Method

1. 1

   Wet up corn meal in cold water until there are no lumps, then stir it gradually into salted boiling water until thick enough that a stick will stand in it.

2. 2

   Boil slowly for two hours.

3. 3

   When cold, fry in slices half an inch thick, first dipped in egg.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

com meal mush made by " wetting up " com meal in cold water until there are no lumps, then stirring it gradually into salted boiling water 130 until — ^an old recipe dictates — ^it is so thick the " stick " will stand in it. The stick is the wooden paddle which is now sold at every house-furnishing store, and used to be made from a broomstick han- dle. The mush should boil slowly two hours. When cold fry in slices half an inch thick first dipped in egg. JULY 28th "Three days out of the seven, indeed, both man and master dined on nothing else but the vegetables in the garden, and the fishes in the neighboring rill." — ^Bttlwer ("My Novel"). AN excellent salad dressing for cold garden vegetables is made thus : Stir together a tablespoon- ful each of salt, oil, and sugar. Add a ta- blespoonful of mustard and three raw eggs

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