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Grandma Charlotte's Wagon Train Breakfast Cornmeal Mush Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup cornmeal
Dried currants
4 cups boiling water
1 Tbsp. lard
1 Tbsp. salt
Molasses
Butter
Milk
Directions:
Directions:
Put dried currants in the boiling water.
Sprinkle a cup of cornmeal in the boiling water.
While stirring, add in the lard and salt.
Cook for 3 minutes, then pour into bowls.
Serve with molasses, butter, and milk.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Even in the pioneer days, breakfast was the most important meal of the day. It should give them the nourishment to start the day’s trek.
William and Charlotte Sherrod and their children made the trek from Tennessee to Arkansas in 1835.

 

 

 

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