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I never did care for cornmeal mush. When Mom made it I cringed. I think I kind of did when I read your recipe. Hmmm, I think one day I may try it though now that I am older (was going to say Grown Up) still waiting on that  The pancakes sound interesting, may try it one day. I used to love pancakes. Alfie said he doesn't care much for pancakes, they didn't eat them in England. I told him he doesn't live in England anymore. He said he is willing to try them.
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My mother used to make fried corn meal mush. It was delicious with Roger's syrup or even maple syrup. We didn't have maple syrup and probably we didn't even know what it was. I actually enjoyed it. It was a change from potatoes and other starchy dishes.
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OMG never heard of corn mush ... not where I grew up lol
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My mother-in-law taught me to make fried cornmeal mush her way, because it was my husband's favourite as a child. She was the only female in a household of 6 sons and a husband.......The recipe was much as you describe here, but with the addition of grated carrots, raisins and sunflower seeds. She steamed it in large baking-powder tins in the pressure-cooker, like Boston Brown Bread, then put them in the fridge. They were taken out when needed and sliced in 1/2 inch thick slices and fried in bacon drippings or oil. She served them with light molasses or maple syrup......She,of course, was a veteran of the 30's. I was born a couple of years after the Nazis pulled out of town. I grew up hearing stories of what they ate in those hard times when the occupying forces ate all the good stuff. The only flour was a coarse rye, so, in order to make a cake for a child's birthday or other special occasion, they would grate many potatoes and soak them.The starch sank to the bottom and they would remove the potatoes and use them for something else, pour off the water and use the starch to make a sponge-cake. I use that old recipe since I had to stop eating gluten, but I buy the potato starch. The traditional cake is a layer-cake, which is much like an English Trifle, if you can imagine a Trifle before it was hit with a wrecking ball......or at least, that's how I heard a Norwegian woman at a church supper describe it to an English woman....LOL....
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I lived off-grid for 20 years, the nearest store a half hour boat ride away......in the winter, we could be stormed in for months. We had a huge garden and orchard, the beaches were full of oysters, clams, mussels....I leaned about how to harvest and prepare sea-weed from First Nations neighbours, we kept chickens bought milk from a neighbour with a cow, did a lot of fishing.....smoked and canned salmon, canned a lot of fruit,tomatoes, smoked oysters, pickles, relishes, salsa.......ate our stored veggies out of the root cellar all winter,bought or traded for venison and beef and made smoked sausage, picked and jammed wild berries...........We bought basic foodstuffs that we could store in bulk.......baked all my own bread...........Etc......
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Great blog topic ET.....back to basics.......I still eat the freshest, most unprocessed food I can find.......My son brings me fresh fish and veggies from his garden......my grandson recently brought me a salmon steak from his first big fish..........I share a garden with my daughter and we just finished freezing a bumper crop of strawberries and raspberries......I buy a bucket of honey this time of year. I just melt some honey, add crushed berries and cook it up. I don't add any water......then I freeze it in half-pint containers......makes amazing yogurt topping.
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Boogie I don't think we Canadians were all that much different. My heritage on my mother's side is American. So perhaps my mother heard about corn meal mush through her mother. My mother was very good with putting a meal together with whatever was around. Living on a farm we may have had an advantage as we produced everything we ate.
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Great blog topic ET.....back to basics.......I still eat the freshest, most unprocessed food I can find.......My son brings me fresh fish and veggies from his garden......my grandson recently brought me a salmon steak from his first big fish..........I share a garden with my daughter and we just finished freezing a bumper crop of strawberries and raspberries......I buy a bucket of honey this time of year. I just melt some honey, add crushed berries and cook it up. I don't add any water......then I freeze it in half-pint containers......makes amazing yogurt topping.
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OMG never heard of corn mush ... not where I grew up lol
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Boogie I don't think we Canadians were all that much different. My heritage on my mother's side is American. So perhaps my mother heard about corn meal mush through her mother. My mother was very good with putting a meal together with whatever was around. Living on a farm we may have had an advantage as we produced everything we ate.
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My grandmother on my dad's side was originally from Ontario. I think she made a lot of different dishes as well including cornmeal mush. It was a staple in our home. I agree with you Boogie every area had a scarcity of food during the depression. I was only a couple of years old when WWII ended so I really don't remember anything about food stamps.
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Exactly, Boogie! Strange how I mentioned this last night to a longtime friend of mine whose dad came from the part of Europe as my mom. Next thing I knew, there was a lot of reminiscing from her childhood days!
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7/22/2018 9:51 pm |
I remember my grandmother saying a letter she wrote to her brother sat on the kitchen table for months because they did not have the penny to buy the stamp. All the pennies went to buy essentials like flour. The flour was packaged in cloth bags. My grandmother used the cloth material to make sleepwear for her children. Today, home-grown food and recycling is "trendy." In those days it was essential.
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