[Sca-cooks] fried mush/polenta

[Elaine Koogler]

Generally, we had the dish when she had made more grits than we could eat
for breakfast.  I guess the difference may have been that my folks were both
raised in the south...and grits were/are a usual breakfast food for us!  Not
as cereal, you understand, but with either butter and cheese, country ham
and red eye gravy or sausage and cream gravy.  It was the leftovers that
would be chilled, sliced and fried the next morning.

Kiri

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:

> Polenta is boiled grain meal.  Grits are boiled corn meal.  Grits are a
> subset of polenta.
>
> The Apician recipe is made with wheat flour, but the more common grain for
> polenta was barley.  These days the common grain for polenta is maize.
>
> My Mother preferred to go straight to cornmeal mush chilled in a loaf pan
> to get nicely shaped slices rather than the intermediate state of grits.
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