Recipe: Chicken Spoonbread Pie with Asparagus and Mushrooms

[eponis]

Okay, y'all. I've been reading the Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook (from 1965), which has some droolworthy ideas for retro pies, both sweet and savory. I had plenty of leftover meat from the chicken I roasted last week, and the recipe for "chicken spoonbread pie" caught my eye as easy and tasty

Comments

[idlerat]

I too plan to make this - except, I have no white cornmeal and don't plan to buy any. What is the functional difference from yellow cornmeal?

[idlerat]

Also, lolz, does anyone still buy dried parsley? do you?

[eponis]

Hah! I think we stock it, mostly for retro recipes like this. :-D But yeah. Really any fresh herbs would be great.

Re: cornmeal, AFAIK, the only difference is the color of the corn that it was ground from. So that should be fine; I only specified because the original recipe did.

[venivincere]

I made it tonight with yellow cornmeal and it came out fine, except that I think I didn't cook it quite long enough. YUMAMAZINGYUM.

[idlerat]

Oh, is it hominy? In that case I guess I need to get it...

[eponis]

Internet Research tells me these things:
- The two are functionally equivalent in any recipe.
- Yellow cornmeal may contain more of certain nutrients (beta carotene, vitamin A), which *may* affect its taste.
- People from different regions of the US have Strong Feelings about which should be used for what foods, but there's no objective consensus.

Now I want to do a taste test . . .