Cornmeal Mush Recipe 

A traditional American dish to be eaten - with a spoon! It isn't really a bread, it is more like Yorkshire pudding, or to be less delicate - cornmeal mush! Designed to make the most of food when times were lean, it is delicious.

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Ingredients

• 2 cups water
  
• 1 cup milk
  
• 1 cup cornmeal
  
• ⅓ cup sweet pepper
  
• 1 tablespoon butter, margarine or oil
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 2 teaspoons salt, pepper to taste
  

Steps

1. Mix water and cornmeal and bring to the boiling point in a heavy-based saucepan. Cook 5 minutes.
   
2. Beat eggs well and add with other materials to the mush.
   
3. Beat well and bake in a well-greased pan for 25 minutes in a hot oven.
   
4. Serve from the same dish with a spoon.
   

Tips

• The original recipe (1918) suggests serving this with milk or syrup. Butter is an alternative to serve it with. Fried meat or vegetables sat atop the spoon bread on a plate is a suitable serving suggestion also.
  
• There are numerous spoon bread variants, including Southern spoon bread, which includes bacon fat and white cornmeal.
  

Things You'll Need

• Heavy-based saucepan
  
• Egg beater
  
• Baking pan (greased or lined with baking paper)
  
• Spoon
  

Sources and Citations

• Sourced from C. Houston Goudiss and Alberta M. Goudiss, Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them, (1918) available in the public domain via Project Gutenberg. The eBook used for the source of this article is available for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
  

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