Cornmeal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Boil 3¾ cups of water in a pot.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt to the boiling water.
Gradually stir in 1 cup of cornmeal.
Cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
Reduce heat and cook for 1 hour over 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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cornmeal
- Its starch swells in hot water and thickens the liquid into a soft, spoonable mush.
The step that matters
Gradually stir in the cornmeal. Adding cornmeal slowly into boiling water while stirring keeps it from clumping. Dry flour surfaces get wet at different rates, so dumping it in creates lumps that stay lumpy as the starch cooks.
“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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