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cornmeal mush

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Noun1.cornmeal mush - cornmeal boiled in water
cornmeal, Indian meal - coarsely ground corn
hot cereal - a cereal that is served hot
atole - eaten as mush or as a thin gruel
hasty pudding - cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)
polenta - a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water


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Tis called polenta, Robin, and as a floor covering it hath no equal" explained the salesman: The title of Baxter's 2004 framed ink-and-pastel drawing almost needs no visual accompaniment, but it's made all the funnier by a rendition of the fictional rebel hero watching as a huge yellow sheet of the cornmeal mush is laid out in a Sherwood Forest clearing.
The term tamale pie first appeared in 1911 and refers to ``a dish of cornmeal mush filled with chopped meat and a hot chili sauce,'' according to John Miriani in his ``The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink.
Polenta is the Mediterranean version of cornmeal mush.
 
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