Indian Meal Mush

Ingredients

• 1 cup corn meal
• 1 pint boiling water
• 1 cup cold milk
• 3/4 teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix the meal and salt with the cold milk.

2. 2

   Stir this gradually into the boiling water.

3. 3

   Cook half an hour in a double boiler, stirring often.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 242. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

3^ teaspoonf ul salt. | Put the meal and salt in the double boiler, pour on the boiling water, and cook two or three hours. Remove the cover just before serving, and stir with a fork to let the steam escape. If the water in the lower boiler be strongly salted, the meal will cook more quickly. Serve with sugar ^ or salt,^ and cream. Baked sour apples,, apple sa,uce^ and apple jelly are delicious eaten with the oatmeal. They should be served with the mush, and the cream and sugar poured over the whole. They give the acid flavor which so many crave in the morning. Coarse oatmeal is not suitable for any form of water brash, acidity, or bowel irritation. It often causes erup- tions on the skin in warm weather. Oatmeal Mush for Children or Invalids. 1 cup granulated oatmeal. 1 scant quart boiling water. The Boston Cook Booh. 415 Indian Meal Mush. 1 cup corn meal. 1 1 cup cold milk. 3^ teaspoonf ul salt. | 1 pint boiling water

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