Date: January 30, 1998 04:47 PM
Author: AnnZavala (Anncats@USA.net)
Subject: Making Hominy - anyone know how?

Someone on one of theses threads talked about getting a ton of cornfor around 180 dollars. That sounds so great, good food, cheap, that I got to thinking about how to use the bounty.

I'd like to find good instructions for making hominy - and can anyone tell me whether the picking lime used for pickles is the right kind of lime to make hominy?

See, with all the corn that we're going to have stored, just corn bread or popcorn or cracked corn mush isn't going to be enough variety - hominy would make a dandy way to enlarge our ways to use up corn.

Once you've made hominy, a great way to use it is in soup - make a good chicken soup, throw in some left over pork, or just boil a pig head with some of the meat left on, and throw in hominy. When it's cooked down a bit, add salt, pepper, maybe a chili or so,and let it cook some more. Serve thesoup with shredded cabbage and chopped onions, maybe some more chili or salsa and drizzle a bit of lemon juice in to it - the perfect pozole, and a filling dinner for pennies.

So come on - who has the right recipe to make hominy?

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Date: January 30, 1998 09:55 PM
Author: Bugbite
Subject: Here you go...


HOMEMADE HOMINY

2 qt. dry field corn

8 qt. water

2 oz. lye

Place in an enameled kettle and boil vigorously for 1/2 hour, then let stand for 20 minutes. Rinse several times with hot water, then rinse with cool water until you can handle the hominy to rub off the dark tips of the kernels. Float away the tips. Add water to cover hominy one-inch and boil 5 minutes.

Drain and repeat 4 times, then cook 1/2 hour or until kernels are tender.

Pack in 12 sterilized pint jars; add 1/2 teaspoon salt to each jar. Cover with boiling water; adjust lids and process in pressure canner, 240 degrees at 10 pounds pressure, 60 minutes. (If using quart jars, process 70 minutes.) This recipe will yield 12 pints of hominy.

Bugbite

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Date: January 31, 1998 02:28 PM
Author: Carol (hewcrew@juno.com)
Subject: Lye


Bugbite,

Please give specific titile of "lye". There are several items for sale as lye.

In the service of the King of Kings,

Private Ebnterprise,

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Date: January 31, 1998 10:39 PM
Author: Bugbite
Subject: I'm not an expert


Lye is sodium hydroxide and any lye you purchase should be pure lye. Don't use drain cleaner or other mixtures. It's very caustic and eats formica. I believe Waltons has instructions for making your own from wood ashes. But I could be wrong. Anyway, I know it can be purchased in crystal form, because I have used it in our out-house prior to getting our "indoor plumbing".

I plan to store corn and saved this recipe for future use. I love hominy. Especially made into grits. But as I have not purchased my corn yet (still working on 800 lbs of wheat) I have not tried this recipe yet. It seems easy enough though.

Bugbite

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Date: February 02, 1998 10:42 AM
Author: Al Durtschi (rcox@mail.lcc.whecn.edu)
Subject: Lye.


The most common lye in the US is Red Devil Lye. Look for it in the cleaning department of your favorite grocery store.

Al

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Date: February 02, 1998 10:46 AM
Author: Al Durtschi (rcox@mail.lcc.whecn.edu)
Subject: Message for Bugbite.


Miss Bugbite,

Would you give me permission to put your hominy recipe up on the net at http://waltonfeed.com/grain/y-rec/ ???

Al

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Date: February 02, 1998 10:22 PM
Author: Bugbite (Bugbite@kfalls.net)
Subject: Recipes for the Ages


Dear Al,

This is not MY recipe. I stole it from some library book. I hope I havn't infringed on someone's copywrite laws by posting it here.

Bugbite

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