Black Mush

Schwatze Brei

Preparation info
  • 6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1993

  • About

In colonial times Black Musk was viewed as a poverty foody a winter emergency dish when stores of meat were gone. That attitude has long since disappeared now that wild rice has become a luxury.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (175 g) uncooked wild rice
  • cups (210

Method

Put the uncooked wild rice in a blender or food processor and process until the grains are broken up into small grits. Combine this with the cornmeal and buckwheat flour. Dissolve the salt in 6 cups (1.5 liters) of spelt stock and bring to a hard boil in a heavy saucepan. Add the canola oil and reduce the heat to a gentle boil.

Combine 2½ cups (600 ml) cold spelt stock with the flour mi