To Make Mush
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 lump butter
- 1 quart water
- corn meal
- salt
Instructions
- Put a lump of butter the size of an egg into a quart of water.
- Make it sufficiently thick with corn meal and a little salt; it must be mixed perfectly smooth.
- Stir it constantly till done enough.