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Indian Meal Mush

From The Cook County cook book, 1912

Serves 4

Recipe by Mabel Sturtevant, 105 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • a cup of corn meal
  • a qt. of salted boiling water

Method

  1. Moisten a cup of corn meal with enough water to make a paste.

  2. Stir this paste into a qt. of salted boiling water and cook, beating it hard and often for at least 1 hr.

  3. If the mush becomes too stiff, add more boiling water.

Nutrition per serving

145Calories
3 gProtein
31 gCarbs
1 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

INDIAN MEAL MUSH. — Moisten a cup of corn meal with enough water to make a paste. Stir this paste into a qt. of salted boiling water

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