SOLDIERS' RECEIPTS
(Ideas for recipes for camp or kitchen impressions)
Salt Pork and Rice
Soak
salt pork in fresh water for several hours.
Fry until brown then add water and rice and boil until water is gone.
Salt
or fresh beef or pork cut into pieces with potatoes, tomatoes, and crackers
seasoned with pepper, salt, and garlic -- stewed.
Pudding
Pound
crackers into fine pieces, mix with sugar, raising and water and boil in a tin
cup.
Slap Jacks
Flour
and water with salt mixed into a batter and fried.
Johnnycakes
For
six servings you will need:
Cornmeal, 2 cups stone ground white or
yellow
Salt, 1 tsp.
Drippings, 2 Tbsp.
Baking Soda, 1 tsp.
Molasses, 2 Tbsp.
Cultured Buttermilk, 1 cup
Bowl, baking sheet
In
the bowl mix well the cornmeal, salt, and baking soda. Place drippings in the center. Stir molasses into ½ cup boiling water, and
pour the mixture on the drippings. Stir
until drippings are melted and meal mixture becomes a paste. Stir in the buttermilk and mix well. Grease the baking sheet and pour the batter
onto it, spreading it evenly by tilting the sheet or by pressing with a wet
hand. Pre-heat oven to 400. Bake for 20-30 min., until dough surface is
cracked and edges are browned. Remove
from the pan before it cools.
Hasty Pudding or Cornmeal Mush
For
six small servings you will need:
Salt, 1 tsp
Cornmeal, 1 cup stoneground yellow
Syrup
Kettle, bowl
Bring
4 cups of water to a boil in a kettle and stir in the salt. Put the meal in the bowl so you can gather
it up easily in your hand. Proceed
stirring the water with a spoon in one hand and sprinkling in the meal with the
other hand. When all the meal has been
stirred in, reduce the heat and simmer for at least 1 hour, stirring every 10
minutes to prevent burning and to test thickness. The pudding is done when it looks like cooked oatmeal.
Fried Cornmeal Mush
Cornmeal
mush is hasty pudding. Fried mush is
hasty pudding that has been chilled, sliced, and fried in fat.