{"id":875,"slug":"confederate-cush","title":"Confederate Cush","description":"Confederate cush is a dish that became popular among the armies of the South during the American Civil War, since it used ingredients that many Southerners had on hand.","ingredients_raw":["Fat bacon, chopped","Cubed cooked beef","Cornmeal mush","1 qt water","1 clove garlic (optional)"],"ingredients_norm":["fat bacon","cooked beef","cornmeal mush","water","garlic"],"steps":["Put bacon into a hot iron skillet, and fry the grease out of it.","Add the beef, then slowly add 4 cups of water. Bring to a boil.","Add cornmeal mush and stir until dry.","Remove skillet from fire, and let cool.","Serve warm, like hash."],"categories":["Meat recipes","Southern U.S. recipes","Pan fried recipes","Recipes using beef","Medium Difficulty recipes","Inexpensive recipes","Recipes using bacon"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Confederate_Cush","source_ref":"4498264","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Confederate_Cush&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"1c339d426b4648eb369deeae3397dbf60e55ec8881ee634865f02339f274535b","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:42:59Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:42:59Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/confederate-cush"}