Mealie Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Bring the water and salt to a boil in a heavy covered 3-quart saucepan.
• Dump the cornmeal into the water, and stir with a wooden spoon to moisten completely. Reduce heat to low, and stir again.
• Cover, and continue cooking about 10 minutes. The mixture should be fairly stiff. Remove from the heat, stir again and set aside, covered, 30 to 40 minutes, until the mixture is just warm.
• Spoon out in a mound on a serving dish and serve in place of bread with soups and stews. Mealie meal is eaten by pulling hunks of it off the mound and squeezing it lightly between the fingertips to compress it.

Steps:

• Mix the corn and the tomatoes.
• In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, vanilla, sugar and milk. Add corn tomato mixture, the dry ingredients & the cheese, reserving some cheese for the top.
• Pour into a buttered 2 quart dish & bake in a preheated 350ºF oven for 75 minutes or until set.
• Serve warm or cold.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Pie Crust: Mix flour and shortening. Add salt and cold water. Add all the cold water at once and mix delicately. Form a ball and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Once dough is chilled, flour your worktop. Divide dough in half. Roll out 2 pie crusts. One should be slightly larger than the other, this will be your bottom crust.
• Meat Filling: Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the pork and onion and cook over medium-low heat for 45 minutes, stirring often. When pork is cooked remove fat from pan. Add grated potato, salt, pepper, and allspice, to taste. Stir well, and let mixture rest for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Butter the bottom of 9-inch pie plate. Place the bottom crust in the pie plate and poke several holes in the crust with a fork. Make sure an ample amount of crust spills over the edges of the pie plate. Fill the crust with the meat mixture. Level with a spatula. Wet edges of bottom crust and place top crust over meat mixture. Press top crust onto meat mixture to eliminate any air holes. Beat together the egg and the milk to make an egg wash. Pinch the crust edges together and brush the top crust with the egg wash.
• Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue baking for 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
• Slice and serve hot or cold.

Steps:

• Boil the water, salt and butter in a heavy-based saucepan.
• Slowly add the cornmeal, so that it forms a mound surrounded by boiling water. Do not stir. Turn off the heat, cover and leave for 15 minutes.
• Remove the lid and stir with a cutting motion to mix.
• Using a fork, transfer the porridge to an ovenproof dish, so that it is loose and crumbly.
• Cover with a lid and bake at 250 F for an hour.
• Mix occasionally with a fork. If the pap (porridge is very moist, remove the lid so that it can dry out slightly.