Recipe - Fried Mush - Marylands Way

1 cup Corn meal
1 cup Cold water
3 cup Boiling water
1 One half teaspoon Salt

Mix corn meal with cold water. Add to boiling, salted water. Cover cook
over boiling water for half an hour, stirring occasionally. Pour into
shallow dish about 1/2inch thick, and put aside in cold place to set. Cut
mush into diamond shaped pieces or rounds (a cookie cutter may be used).
Sprinkle lightly with flour and pan fry in a small amount of hot shortening
until golden brown on both sides. An excellent garnish for a platter of
Maryland Fried Chicken.

Recipe from "Maryland's Way, The HammondHarwood House Cookbook" Judge
Benjamin Watkin's family receipt The Locusts, Anne Arundel

Reprinted with kind permission from "Maryland's Way, The HammondHarwood
House Cookbook," pub. by The HammondHarwood House Association, c. 1963.
Available for purchase by calling (410) 2634683.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #852 by Bill Webster thelma@pipeline.com on
Oct 18, 1997