PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Looking for a simple old-fashioned recipe for a cold day? How about a bowl of corn soup?

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Joyce N Billy Lambert January 4, 2016

I can remember my grandma making “corn meal broth/soup” when I had the measles.
pamela miller January 5, 2016

Corn Soup.
When you said boil the cobs, do mean a dozen cobs?
And do they turn to mush after boiling for an hour, or do you remove them after?
What is new milk?
What is ‘good butter rubbed up’ ?
What kind of flour, Self rising or plain?
1. Donna R Causey January 5, 2016
  
  This recipe has been transcribed from an 1880s book so your guess is as good as mine. This was the way they once wrote recipes.
Ann Cosper January 6, 2016

It says put 12 cobs in one gallon of water. The grains are the grains (kernels) that you cut from the cobs. The flour and butter are rubbed together to keep the flour from lumping. New milk is fresh milk. With out refrigeration, milk soured quickly. Kind of flour is plain. During that time most raised their own wheat and milled their own flour. Yes I am old!
Ann Cosper January 6, 2016

Self rising flour was first patterned in 1845 but was not sold in rural areas until much later.
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