Mush Bread

Ingredients

• one cup of meal
• one and one-half cups of water
• one well beaten egg
• one cup buttermilk
• one small teaspoon soda
• butter size of walnut
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Stir until smooth and bake until light brown in a pudding dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup buttermilk (not too sour), pinch of soda, one tablespoon melted lard, stirred in last. Scalded meal makes them lighter. Very sour milk never makes as good corn bread. Corn Muffins. — One pint meal, one pint buttermilk, one or two eggs, one tablespoon lard, half teaspoon of soda. Dissolved in milk, a little salt. Bake in pans. Corn Meal Muffins. — One pint meal (not heaping), three- quarters pint cold water, heaping tablespoon of lard, one tea- spoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, two eggs, HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 129 pinch of salt. Sift half of the meal in pan. Put lard and salt in this ; pour enough boiling water on this to scald it well, then stir in balance of the meal. Now add the cold water, then add the cream tartar, soda and eggs. Mix them well and it is ready for use. Have iron muffin rings piping hot and well greased with lard. Pour in the batter. Cook in very hot oven. — Mrs. L. L. Branum. Mush Muffins. — Make ordinary mush, just a little thicker than eaten with milk; set aside to partially cool; have muffin rings hot and well greased, and fill with mush. Run into oven just long enough to slightly brown. Serve with a lump of butter in the center of each one, very hot. These are delicious. — Mrs. Reese Lillard. Oat Meal Muffins.— Make a flour batter just as you would for flour muffins, and add the left-over oat meal for breakfast, allowing much more oat meal than batter. Put in hot greased molds and cook quickly. Prepare the oat meal over night if you want muffins for breakfast. — Mrs. J. P. Hirt. Graham Muffins. — Two cups buttermilk, two and one-half cupsful graham flour, one egg, one tablespoon molasses, two tablespoons lard, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon baking powder, half teaspoon salt. — Mrs. A. H. Ellington. Mush Bread. — Make a thin mush of corn meal and milk (or hot water if milk is scarce). Cook till perfectly done, stirring all the time to keep it smooth. Then add lump butter, and after it cools a little, two eggs at a time; beat in a very small pinch of soda and a little salt. Butter a dish and bake slowly till brown. Mush. — Mix one pint corn meal with cold water; stir half gallon boiling water, boil half an hour, stirring all the time. Try this fried ; it is most delicious. Mush Bread. — Make a mush by adding slowly, one cup of meal to one and one-half cups of water boiling on the stove. Stir until smooth. Take up and add one well beaten egg, one 130 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. cup buttermilk, oue small teaspoou soda, butter size of walnut

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.