Spray Plantation, Near the St. Mary's River, Maryland, l661

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Corn at Every Meal      Corn is served at every meal. Water and cornmeal are boiled into a mush that is served at breakfast. Leftover cold mush is later fried on a skillet. Cornmeal is mixed with water, milk or eggs to make fritters, puddings, cakes and bread.      Corn is also cooked in other ways. Fresh ears are roasted for corn-on-the-cob. Kernels are cooked into a pudding called hominy. Often corn and other vegetables are cooked together in one-pot meals with meats like chicken, beef, pork, turkey, deer, duck, or fish.

Corn mush frying in a skillet called a spider. (Notice the spider legs!)

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Sue Freienmuth for Montgomery County Public Schools, MD, Oct. 25, 2000