Maggie's Farm

Re-posted

That's Nora Mill "Georgia Ice Cream" stone-ground speckled grits.

With Thanksgiving on the way, my thoughts have wandered to one of my favorite desserts - Indian Pudding. I don't know about the rest of the country, but up here old Yankees view it to be as essential as Pumpkin Pie and Winter Squash Pie on the dessert table. (I usually consider Mince Pie to be more of a Christmas treat.) Here's one good recipe. I think ice cream overpowers it, but a drizzle of heavy cream does not.

Since we're on the subject of corn meal, here are a few of my other favorites:

Cheese Grits. This would be good for Thanksgiving too. Cheese grits are good with game meat, and with barbecue too. I could live on cheese grits.

Baked Grits.

Jalapeno Cheddar Grits. Not for Thanksgiving, I feel.

Cornbread stuffing (esp for turkey).

Related, but not ground corn: Cope's Dried Sweet Corn. The best for corn pudding, which is a Thanksgiving necessity.

Almost forgot - Cornmeal pancakes. More interesting than ordinary pancakes.

The American Indians ground their teeth down to nubs from chomping ground corn (samp) - and especially from the stone particles in it from their stone mortars.