Name: Cornmeal Mush
Ingredients: 1 cup boiling water in a double boiler; salt

Cornmeal Mush

Ingredients

1 cup boiling water in a double boiler
salt

Directions

Mix ^ teaspoon salt with J cup cornmeal ; sprinkle it over 1 cup boiling water in a double boiler, stirring very hard till smooth ; add f cup milk, and cook 3 hours, replenishing the boiling water in the under kettle as needed. Serve hot with sugar and cream or milk.
Cold nuish may lie cut into tl:in slices and fried brown in a little butter or dripping.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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. See the original page.