Maize Meal

[Loyalist Dave]

Here's a link to a book called Maize Meal Cookery . Now it was published in 1914, but some of the recipes, the Maize Meal Bread on page 10 for example, do not use any modern ingredients, so would be fine for a pre-baking powder era, cooking demonstration.

On the other hand some different recipes for cooking with cornmeal might be fun as well in camp, even if they use baking powder or baking soda. Other recipes are found within having nothing to do with cornmeal. The entree Kedgeree, may be found on p. 29. I don't know how this relates to various other version of kedgeree.

I wonder as this book is very short and seems to offer ways to stretch other flours, if it was published just after the opening of WWI in England to help with wartime food problems?

LD

 

[coloradoclyde]

Leading up to and during WWI the price of wheat rose sharply...Doubling or more.....

 

[satx78247]

Was that abrupt rise in wheat prices caused by the coming of WWI (perhaps international contracts for exporting food to the nations at war) or perhaps had part of the USA suffered a crop failure/drought about that same time?

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

I don't remember the exact cause(s) Just going off memory, I'd have to look it up again....early 20th century is outside of my normal interest.

The point I was trying to make was that it may have influenced or been the motivation for writing the book.