Recipe: Tamale Pie (1955)

TAMALE PIE

1 cup cornmeal
3 cups boiling water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
3 tablespoons cooking fat or oil
3/4 pound chopped raw meat (or 1 1/2 cups chopped cooked meat)
1 1/2 cups drained canned or cooked tomatoes
Chili powder and salt to taste

Stir cornmeal slowly into rapidly boiling salted water. Bring to boil over direct heat Cover, and cook 45 minutes over boiling water, stirring occasionally.

Cook onion and green pepper in fat or oil until tender; remove.

Add meat to fat. If raw meat is used, cook until done.

Add remaining ingredients and heat thoroughly,

Pour a layer of the cooked cornmeal into a greased baking dish, add meat mixture, and cover with the rest of the cornmeal.

Bake at 400 degrees F (hot oven) 30 minutes.

Makes about 4 servings
From: Recipelink.com
Adapted from source: Money-Saving Main Dishes, USDA Home and Garden Bulletin No. 43, 1955