Fried Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Slice the mush into pieces.
Dip each piece in the beaten egg.
Coat the egg-dipped pieces in cornmeal.
Cook
Fry in hot oil until brown.
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
- Mush
- Forms the main body of the dish, cooked until its outside turns crisp.
- Beaten egg
- Binds the cornmeal coating to the mush so it adheres during frying.
- Cornmeal
- Forms a coating that becomes crisp and browned in the hot oil.
The step that matters
Fry in hot oil until brown. If the oil is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisp. Frying until brown gives the coated surface its color and crunch through browning.
“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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