Polenta Corn Meal Recipe

Take an iron kettle, put in two quarts water with one tablespoon salt.

Heat and before boiling, slowly pour in your corn meal, stirring

continuously until you have it very stiff. Put on lid and let boil for

an hour or more. Turn out in a pan and keep warm. Later this is turned

out on a platter for the table.

Cut it in pieces of about an inch wide for each plate and on this the

following sauce is added with a teaspoon Parmesan cheese added to each

piece.

Brown a good sized onion in two tablespoons butter, add 1/2 clove of

garlic, about 5 pieces of dried mushroom, being well soaked in water

(use the water also) dissolve a little extract of beef, pouring that

into this with a little more water, salt and some paprika--a pinch of

sugar and 1/3 teaspoon vinegar.

A little flour to make a nice gravy. This makes it very palatable.

It takes about ten minutes to cook.

Serve in gravy bowl--a spoonful on each piece of Polenta. Added to that

the grated cheese, is all that is needed for a whole meal. Apple sauce

should be served with this dish.

Man doth not live by bread alone.

--Owen Meredith