" In the shape of _porridge_ the corn
is called _suppawn_.
_Mush_ is another form of the corn meal; Mr. Cobbett says, "it is not a
word to squall out over a piano-forte," "but it is a very good word, and
a real English word." It seems to mean something which is half pudding,
half porridge. _Homany_ is the shape in which the corn meal is generally
used in the southern states of America, but Mr. Cobbett has never seen
it. _Samp_ is the corn skinned, as we shell oats, or make pearl barley;
it is then boiled with pork or other meat, as we boil peas. It is in
fact corn soup, superior to all preparations of pulse, on account of
their indigestible qualities.
The corn flour is not so adhesive as the wheat flour; it is consequently
not so well adapted to puddings and bread-making: nevertheless, Mr.
Cobbett contrives to show that his corn can make both inimitably; but in
respect of cakes there are no cakes in the world like the corn-cakes of
America. They have the additional merit of being made in a minute: "A
Yankee will set hunger at defiance if you turn him into a wilderness
with a flint and steel, and a bag of corn-meal or flour.
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