Sloosh

{{short description|Variety of cornbread popular during the American Civil War}}

{{Notability|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox prepared food

| name = Sloosh

| image =

| caption =

| alternate_name = Sloosh Doggies

| country = United States

| region =

| creator =

| course =

| type = Cornbread

| served =

| main_ingredient = Cornmeal and bacon grease

| variations =

| calories =

| other =

}}

Sloosh was a form of cornbread that was popular during the American Civil War, especially among Confederate soldiers.{{cite book | last=Counihan | first=C | title=Food in the USA | publisher=Routledge | year=2000 | pages=95 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nzLJoRXymQC&dq=sloosh+cornbread&pg=RA2-PA95 | isbn=0-415-93232-7 }} Civil war historian Shelby Foote described it as a mixture of cornmeal and bacon grease to make a dough, snaked around a ramrod from a rifled musket, and cooked over a campfire.{{cite book | title = War, Terrible War | author= Joy Hakim |publisher = Oxford University Press | location= New York, New York (USA) |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=ERuoqhiVWXAC&dq=Sloosh&pg=PA82 | date = 2005 | page = 82 | isbn = 978-0-19-518899-8 | accessdate = 24 January 2013 }}