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Breakfast Cornmeal Mush

cornmeal mush
(from Emigrants Guide to Oregon & California by Lansford Hastings, 1845)

Ingredients:

1 cup cornmeal​
4 cups boiling water​
1 tablespoon lard or butter​
1 teaspoon salt​
dried currents (raisins)​

Instructions:
Put currents into water and bring to a boil. Sprinkle cornmeal into the boiling water, stirring constantly. Add the butter and salt. Cook for about 3 minutes, then portion into bowls. Can be topped with milk, butter, sugar, or molasses.​


Even though this were used by pioneers, it would be good for Civil War soldiers.
 
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Ate some of that **** when I was a kid. To this day I cannot eat mush of any kind. Or raisins. (Thanks Robtweb.)

And that includes grits.
 
Ate some of that **** when I was a kid. To this day I cannot eat mush of any kind. Or raisins. (Thanks Robtweb.)

And that includes grits.

Now I was raised on grits, bisquits & gravy, home cured ham & bacon, homemade pork sausage, rice and chicken gravy, fried chicken (every Sunday), and Tennessee bar-b-que (pork). I am 62 years old and I don't have clogged arteries or any other type of cardiovascular problems.
 
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