{"id":1029,"date":"2012-02-20T19:18:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2022-04-12T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T04:45:00","slug":"corn-meal-mush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/corn-meal-mush\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Meal Mush (Polenta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PREPARATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 CU Arrowhead Mills Stone Ground Yellow Corn Meal<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 CU Apple Juice ( Cranberry tastes good too )<\/li>\n<li>Soak for 1-12 hours ( overnight works best for me )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INGREDIENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 CU boiling hot water<\/li>\n<li>Two eggs<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp onion &#8211; minced<\/li>\n<li>Zest and juice from one lemon<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 C cream<\/li>\n<li>4 TBL butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STEP BY STEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Whisk or strain dry corn meal before anything to assure there are no dry clumps<\/li>\n<li>Soak your corn meal overnight &#8211; see above<\/li>\n<li>The next morning, remove anything that has floated to the top.<\/li>\n<li>Bring water to a boil<\/li>\n<li>As water is heating, mix corn meal and apple juice in with the egg, salt, onion and lemon<\/li>\n<li>Add corn meal mush to boiling water a spoonful at a time, whisking constantly<\/li>\n<li>NEVER bring back to a full boil<\/li>\n<li>Stir frequently for five minutes<\/li>\n<li>Whisk in 4 TBL softened butter ( and optionally Parmesan cheese )<\/li>\n<li>Cover and cook over reduced heat 30 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Stir every 3-5 minutes &#8211; cook until thickened<\/li>\n<li>Stir in cream and several tabs of butter.<\/li>\n<li>Serve with milk and\/or sugar<\/li>\n<li>Top (or side) with a poached egg<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>NOTES and VARIATIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optional and best: grind your own corn meal from corn<\/li>\n<li>Try with 2 TBL pecarino cheese ( or other goat cheese )<\/li>\n<li>The Many Faces of Polenta\n<ul>\n<li>Called polenta in Spain and Italy<\/li>\n<li>Called Grits in the Southern United States<\/li>\n<li>Czech Republic name: Kuku\u0159i\u010dn\u00e1 Mouka<\/li>\n<li>Hominy Grits are more common in the South U.S. They have a larger and more coarse texture than cornmeal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREPARATION 1\/2 CU Arrowhead Mills Stone Ground Yellow Corn Meal 1\/2 CU Apple Juice ( Cranberry tastes good too ) Soak for 1-12 hours ( overnight works best for me ) INGREDIENTS 2 CU boiling hot water Two eggs 1\/2 tsp salt 1 tsp onion &#8211; minced Zest and juice from one lemon 1\/4 C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/corn-meal-mush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corn Meal Mush (Polenta)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,178,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-appetizers","category-book-breakfasts","category-world-cuisine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22178,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/22178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}