Scrapple

Scrapple is a cornmeal pudding in which the cornmeal, perhaps with the addition of buckwheat, is simmered with pork scraps and trimmings, then cooled and hardened into a loaf.

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Scrapple is one of those farm foods invented to use those parts of slaughtered food animals which were not suitable to be served on their own, in the same manner as sausages, or Jewish kishkes. Scrapple typically contains the meaty parts of hog heads, hearts, some liver, and other scraps. The proportion and spicing is very much a matter of the region, family, and the cook's taste.

Cornmeal: Cornmeal is a staple food in many parts of the world, made from maize (A. E. corn) that is dried and ground by hand or in a gristmill. Other names for cornmeal are masa harina, mealie meal, farina di granturco....

Pudding: Pudding is either of two general types of food, the second deriving from the first....

Buckwheat: :This article is about the food crop. For the Our Gang/Little Rascals character see Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas....