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Cookbook:Confederate Cush

recipe 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
 * 1 qt water
 * cornmeal mush

Procedure
Chop up a small quantity of fat bacon. Put into a hot frying pan and fry the grease out of it. Slowly add a quart of water. When it boils, add cornmeal mush and stir until dry. Wait until it cools. Serve warm.

Variations

 * Can be made with cold cornbread or soured corn pone.
 * Flour can be substituted for cornmeal
 * Salt pork can be substituted for bacon
 * Cubed beef can be added
 * If more water is added, it can serve as a soup.