Tag: cornmeal
Indian Pudding - America’s Forgotten Dessert
This lightly spiced baked custard is lightly spiced fall for dessert and great for Thanksgiving.
Hearty and Cheap: Cornmeal Mush from the Great Depression Era
Fried cornmeal mush is a dish made by cooking cornmeal, water, and salt to form a thickened porridge, chilling it until solid, then slicing and pan-frying the slices until golden brown and crispy. It is a versatile and inexpensive dish, often served for b...
What Pioneers ate on the Oregon Trail
Cornmeal cakes and the bacon in whose fat they were fried. This recipe hails from the Oregon Trailer in 1856.
Crispy Blooming Onion Fritters
These awesome blossom onion bites are a great way to capture the magic of a fried blooming onion, and they are much easier to make than deep frying a whole onion at home. A recipe for the perfect dipping sauce is included. Salting the onions to remove exc...
Fannie Farmer's Boston Brown Bread
Like Boston baked beans, one of the main ingredients of Boston brown bread is molasses. Endless variations exist that add dried fruit and/or nuts, and like with many regional specialities, every Bostonian thinks that their version is the right one. I play...
Making Pupusas (Fried Corn Fritters)
A pupusa is a thick griddle cake or flatbread from El Salvador and Honduras made with cornmeal or rice flour, similar to the Colombian and Venezuelan arepa. In El Salvador, it has been declared the national dish and has a specific day to celebrate it.
Hot Water Cornbread
Hot Water Cornbread is a delicious and simple cornbread recipe that yields a delicious crunchy cornbread using a simple pouring method.