Brick chili recipe: 59 photos
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A chili brick is a block of chili con carne made of finely ground beef and various peppers and spices. You can usually find it at most grocery stores in the refrigerated or freezer section.
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Combine 1 egg, 1/2 cup milk, 3/4 cup water, 1/2 cup corn meal. Stir the ingredients into one pound prepared Chili Brick® along with 3/4 cup whole kernel corn and small can chopped tomatoes (drained). Stir well, pour into casserole dish. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes.
A recipe dating back to the 1850s describes dried beef, suet, dried chili peppers and salt, which were pounded together, formed into bricks and left to dry, which could then be boiled in pots in an army encampment in Monterrey, of what is now Nuevo León, Mexico.
Bricks are made in Mexico pretty much as it's been done for generations, and this morning will be no different. Tio makes a composite cement-thick mud they call lodo, by shoveling and mixing heavy clay, sawdust, straw, water, and cow manure.