The taste of the pork moves into the corn satisfying the palate as if there was lots more of it. Combine it with the Organic Polenta Corn Grits from yesterday at about $3 a pack and you have ton of food that will last through many meals for under $15. Slice, dredge in organicįry until golden and sneak eggs onto the griddleĪnd talk about economical! I bought two pounds of organic ground pork for a little over $10. The recipe makes three loaf pans or one loaf pan andĪ large refrigerator dish. Smooth out the surface, let cool at room temperature, Well together, into loaf pans, the same as yesterday. Pour the corn meal mush with ground pork, mixed Yesterday’s post and made the same way, into the Pour the corn meal mush, the same quantity as

Pepper, and poultry seasoning to taste, but don’t I use a potato masher to break apart two pounds of The rest of the recipe will seem oddly familiar as it follows what we saw yesterday about slicing the congealed loaf of corn meal mush, flouring and frying the slices in coconut oil to a golden brown. To make Scrapple, you cook ground pork, then make corn meal mush and add it to the pork.

You’re probably way ahead of me in realizing this post follows the previous one, Amish Fried Corn Meal Mush for a very good reason. But, the common use of cooking cereal mush, adding cooked pork and cooling the mixture into a loaf for slicing and frying ties the regions together. Each area has their distinctive treatment as some use oatmeal, corn or wheat for the cereal. Brought to this country by the German Dutch into Pennsylvania, scrapple traveled out to western Ohio and into Pennsylvania’s border states, Maryland and Virginia.

Scrapple is an old food, mixing cereal with pork, that has origins with the ancient Celts and medieval Germans. But, if you’re also like me and have enjoyed homemade Scrapple with the Amish, made with first quality organic ground pork, then you know you were willing to start anew and go crazy over the stuff. The realization that Scrapple was made of corn and pig snouts, well, it was a shock that I’m still getting over. If you’re like me, you remember being a kid, loving scrapple and then, one morning, making the mistake of reading the wrapper of the commercial product. When you finish the commute home, finally pull into theĭriveway and look up to see a scene like this one goingīe thankful you made Scrapple over the weekend.

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