Tamale Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups cornmeal
• 1 onion
• 5 cups water (boiling)
• 2 cups tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons fat
• 2 cups cookee or raw meat cut in small pieces
• 1 teaspoon salt
• + cup green peppers

Method

1. 1

   To the cornmeal and 1 teaspoon salt, add boiling water.

2. 2

   Cook for half an hour.

3. 3

   Brown onion in fat, add meat.

4. 4

   Add salt, 4 teaspoons cayenne, the tomatoes, and green peppers.

5. 5

   Grease baking dish, put in a layer of cornmeal mush, add seasoned meat, and cover with mush.

6. 6

   Bake for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods that will win the war (1918) by Charles Houston Goudiss, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TAMALE PIE 2 cups cornmeal 1 onion 5 cups water (boiling) 2 cups tomatoes 2 tablespoons fat 2 cups cookee or raw meat cut 1 teaspoon salt in small pieces + cup green peppers

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