Corn Meal Mush and Milk
From Cooking for profit, 1886
Serves 4
Use white corn meal, coarsely ground and free from flour.
Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Corn Meal Mush and Milk. One of the floating paragjraphs of the day is concerning a noted British journa- list who cannot bring himself to like corn meal and says unfavorable things about it Buch as saying it is nothing but oatmeal with a flavor of mice. He has evidently been trying yellow meal, and probably that not properly cooked. An early training "down south*' convinced the writer of these lines that there is much more in corn meal than is generally sup- posed, and various people who have tried his methods have expressed a pleased surprise. It is no use, however, to try to gain favor tor yellow corn meal. Its strong flavor may be agreeable to such as have been accustomed to it since childhood, but their preferences will not be shared by many. Always use white corn meal, coarsely ground and free from flour, make the mush with all the water it will take up, have it as soft and jelly- like to fry as it can well be cut and bandied when cold ; be careful to salt it right and fry it handsomely and you will find corn meal in its difierent forms of mush 3nd milk, fried mush, corn bread, muffins, batter-cakes, corn meal pud- dings, and others, an article so pleasant to the palate that it soon comes to be re- garded as one of the indispensibles. While it is true the negro cooks of the south have had almost the monopoly of the art of cooking com meal it will not do to admit that what they accomplish through the simple habit of doing, cannot as well be done by the exercise of inteUi- gent judgement. Take 2 heaping cnps white com meal, 8 cups water. 1 rounded tablespoon salt
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