Cookbook:Confederate Cush

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Confederate cush is a dish that became popular among the armies of the South during the American Civil War, since it used ingredients that many Southerners had on hand.

Ingredients

• Fat bacon, chopped
• Cubed cooked beef
• Cornmeal mush
• 1 qt water
• 1 clove garlic (optional)

Procedure

1. Put bacon into a hot iron skillet, and fry the grease out of it.
2. Add the beef, then slowly add 4 cups of water. Bring to a boil.
3. Add cornmeal mush and stir until dry.
4. Remove skillet from fire, and let cool.
5. Serve warm, like hash.

Notes, tips, and variations

• Can be made with cold cornbread or soured corn pone.
• Flour can be substituted for cornmeal.
• Salt pork can be substituted for bacon.
• If more water is added, it can serve as a stew.
• Crumbled hardtack can serve in the place of the cornmeal mush.
• Can be saved for later, like hardtack.