Corn Meal Mush

[reddogge]

Anybody familiar with this old treat? My father's Aunt Minnie from West Virginia use to make it for us when I was a kid. I never forgot it so was thrilled to find out the recipe is on the side of a box of Quaker Yellow corn meal.

Boil 3 cups water. Combine 1 cup water, 1 cup corn meal, 1 tsp salt. Slowly pour mixture into the boiling water and stir until it thickens. Pour into a greased baking dish and refrigerate until solid. Cut into 3/8" thick slices and fry in butter or whatever you like until golden brown on both sides. Eat with syrup poured over it.

Yummy!

 

[Black Hand]

Yep. Except now it is sold in high-end restaurants as "Polenta" or in the refrigerated section of your local supermarket with a high-end price. Strangely enough, most people don't know it is just corn meal mush probably made using cornmeal from the supermarket that goes for $1.67.......

Try it with a little chopped rosemary added, and fry in olive oil for a different approach.....

 

[ryoung14]

Yep, got to eat that many times when we were kids. Had it warm with milk and sweetened with genuwine Maple Syrup....Grampa's brothers had a sugarbush.

Had it made, but like most dumb kids, did not know it.
Bob

 

[bart_anastasi]

If you want to make polenta try adding some grated cheese. Or whip in some raw egg to cook in to it. or both.

Pour out onto a wood cutting board. Let cool a bit and use like bread.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Oh yeah. down south we do the same with grits. pour into an empty coffee can and let cool overnight then slice and fry in bacon grease on both sides until browned. good with syrup or honey but I prefer mine with sunny-side eggs, real runny!

 

[nw_hunter]

Now your talkin..Blizzard :hatsoff:

 

[FPDoc]

You can do the same with oatmeal. Thin and crunchy you can carry it around while you eat it. Thicker slices with syrup like you said. Mix whatever else is leftover and it was called "scrapple". If you know what these things tasted like... you "didn't have squat" as a kid. Sure was good though!!!

 

[trent/OH]

It's still available around here. I think I want to buy some next trip to the grocery, along with some Goetta. Neither my wife nor my kids are fond of it, but they also don't like many of the foods I bring back from the woods.

 

[reddogge]

Got to thinking about it so I made a dish of it tonight to fry up tomorrow.

 

[Bubba45]

Good stuff! We would soak the cornmeal over night in water and it would absorb the water .Next morn add more water to it too thin it up a bit before adding it to the boiling water to cook till smooth and creamy.Any left overs would get fried next morn nice and crispy on the edges smothered in syrup :thumbsup:

 

[JohnnyO]

When I visited my sister in northern kentucky I got to try Goetta! Oh man did I enjoy it! Along with Dixie Chili! My dad is from Covington and my grandparents and sister live out there. I wish we could find that here in Cali but I guess I'll have to try an make my own.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I cooked a small pot of grits last night while doing the Internet thing and poured into a small metal tub. sliced it this morn in about 3/4" slices and browned in bacon grease, ate with a slice of fried cured&smoked venison ham and a couple of cackelberrys. :thumbsup:

 

[Maestro]

You can do the same with oatmeal. Thin and crunchy you can carry it around while you eat it. Thicker slices with syrup like you said. Mix whatever else is leftover and it was called "scrapple". If you know what these things tasted like... you "didn't have squat" as a kid. Sure was good though!!!

"Scrapple" is something quite different here in PA Dutch country. It's finely ground pork (scraps... face meat, etc.) with whole wheat flour, black pepper, spices, etc. made like a block of corn meal mush. After it's congealed in a block, it can be sliced and fried. (I love it!)

Corn meal mush is also a PA Dutch breakfast food - sliced and fried with blackstrap molasses or maple syrup.

 

[Bubba45]

You can do the same with oatmeal. Thin and crunchy you can carry it around while you eat it. Thicker slices with syrup like you said. Mix whatever else is leftover and it was called "scrapple". If you know what these things tasted like... you "didn't have squat" as a kid. Sure was good though!!!

"Scrapple" is something quite different here in PA Dutch country. It's finely ground pork (scraps... face meat, etc.) with whole wheat flour, black pepper, spices, etc. made like a block of corn meal mush. After it's congealed in a block, it can be sliced and fried. (I love it!)

Corn meal mush is also a PA Dutch breakfast food - sliced and fried with blackstrap molasses or maple syrup.

This is the way my Grandmother made Scrapple also.

 

[Stumpkiller]

My wife (who's Pappy was from WV) makes this up occasionally. I don't think my system can digest it. Sits like a rock in my gullet. :haha:

Tastes great but it's like eating cement.

 

[shmrck1]

Wow,what a great discussion...But to be honest
mush is mush.Fried mush is fried mush! But
scrapple is a whole new recipe. I have to tell you I like them all. Scraple is a bit different.
Make up mush. Add some garlic and tyme and ground
sausage. Form it up in a bread pan. Place in frig
till set. Remove.slice and fry!
Mush is mush but it is not scrapple till you
make it so!IMO
snake-eyes

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yeah. I like scrapple. ;-)

 

[shmrck1]

This is just a question? But could you not
take the sliced scapple and dehydrate it and use as
a trail food. Any thoughts?
snake-eyes :hmm:

 

[Ken Morrison]

Fried mush is my breakfast of champions before a hunting trip. When I was a kid I remember one of the 'Our Gang' group when asked what he had for breakfast answered "mush again".

When my wife asks me what I want for breakfast before going hunting I just say 'mush again'.

A special treat is fried mush with fried scrapple. Good eating :hatsoff:

 

[Birdman]

snake-eyes I'm not sure it would be a good thing to dehydrate scrapple because of the fat content of the pork. BUT if ya was going out on a cold weather outing n cooked some up ahead of time real nice n crispy like it should last a couple days no problem if kept cold, man I love scrapple fried crispy with a bit of real maple suger poured over it, tounge almost beats my ears to death waiting fer it to come out of the pan, YUUUMMM yuummm