Baked Corn-meal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Prepare cornmeal mush by cooking cornmeal with water and salt until partially done.
Bake
Pour the mush into shallow pans, making a layer no more than 2 inches thick.
Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until well browned.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Cornmeal
- Forms the thick body of the mush and sets into a firm, sliceable crust when baked.
The step that matters
Keep the mush layer no more than 2 inches thick. A thick layer heats slowly in the centre, so the middle stays soft while the surface over-browns. A shallow layer bakes evenly through and browns uniformly.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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