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last 15 minutes only. Fry onion and garlic in a little corn oil, in a big skillet that can go in the

oven. Leave half of it in the bottom of the skillet. Mix the cornmeal, other dry ingredients,

egg, beans and bean stock with the other half of fried onions/garlic. Mix thoroughly and

pour into the skillet on top of the fried onion/garlic left in it. Bake at 350° for about 12

minutes, then sprinkle on cheese, olives, tomato and onion, bake 5 minutes longer. This is a

fork-eating, not a pick-up corn bread. The corn and beans combine protein complementarity

to make one serving about 20% of a day's protein requirement. However, you better make 2

skillets of this for your family if this is the main dish.

Indian cornmeal pudding serves 4-6

There must be several hundred recipes for this. East coast tribal people taught settlers how

to make it. Settlers sometimes calld it "Hasty pudding" kind of a joke, because the

stone-ground cornmeal required many hours of baking. This recipe adds a small amount of

soy grits -- precooked soy beans ground up to a fine quick-cooking meal. Through protein

complementarity, that greatly increases the availability of proteins in this dessert.

4 cups milk

1 cup yellow cornmeal

1/4 cup soy grits soaked in 1/2 cup water

1/3 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

2/3 cup light molasses

3/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp cloves

1/4 tsp ginger

1/8 tsp allspice

1/8 tsp nutmeg

1/2 cup fine-chopped dried apples (optional)

2 eggs

In a big pan, bring the milk to a boil, then add the cornmeal and soy grits gradually stirring

rapidly to keep lumps from forming. Lower heat and beat vigorously until it starts to get

thick (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat. Add butter, sugar, molasses (can use maple

syrup) and spices, let cool somewhat. Stir in 2 beaten eggs. Pour into buttered baking dish,

bake 50-60 minutes at 325°, until pudding is firm. Serve warm with cream, vanilla icecream,

or plain yoghurt.

If soy grits is used: one serving is about 30% of a day's protein requirement. Some kinds of

cornmeal (stone ground) have more protein and other minerals and vitamins, though it

depends on where/how it was grown.

Corn Soup, Serves 6-8

This is another one where there's a million recipes, plus the fact you can throw in whatever

you have on hand.

1/2 lb salt pork

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