Porridge with Maize (Massara)

Ingredients

• one breakfastcup of water
• two-and-a-half tablespoons massara
• a pinch of salt
• two lumps or one teaspoonful sugar

Method

1. 1

   Prepare massara like Quaker Oats porridge, using water, salt, and sugar.

2. 2

   Cook until all water is absorbed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

orridge, with Maize (Massara). — The massara can be either crushed into small pieces or ground till it looks just like semolina. Make exactly like Quaker Oats porridge, counting one breakfastcup water to two-and-a- half tablespoons massara. Add a pinch of salt and two lumps or one teaspoonful sugar and cook till all the water has been absorbed. The time and proportion of water vary according to the freshness of the maize. This porridge is very good eaten with native honey. Breakfast Cakes with Quaker Oats.— To make four small cakes, put two tablespoons oats and four-and-a-balf tablespoons water or milk (if Ideal, one dessertspoon to four tablespoons water), in the double boiler or in a small saucepan standing in another filled with boiling water. Cook for twenty or twenty-five minutes till the water is ODDS AND ENDS. 161 absorbed, turn on to a plate, flatten out to about three- quarters of an inch thick, allow to cool and then cut into rounds with the lid of a small tobacco or cocoa tin. Melt just enough butter, lard or ground nut oil to grease the small frying pan. Lift the cakes with a knife into the pan set on a medium fire. Turn them over with a knife when they are yellow ; they must not be actually fried but just dried. Serve hot with native honey. Note. — The only way to have good porridge is to keep to the proportions of one part of oats to two parts and a quarter of milk or water, and to have it always cooked in a double boiler or in a saucepan standing inside another one. The massara makes even better cakes than the oats. The proportions must be two-and-a-half tablespoons massara

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