Corn Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Pour 3 pints of boiling water into an iron pot over the fire.
Sift 1 pint of corn meal into the boiling water.
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
- Corn meal
- Forms the thick body of the porridge as its starch swells and gelatinises in the hot water.
The step that matters
Sifting the corn meal into boiling water. Adding the meal slowly into fully boiling water lets each grain hydrate separately, which helps prevent lumps. Dumping it in at once tends to form clumps that are hard to smooth out.
“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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