Boiled Hominy
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the hominy overnight in water with salt.
In the morning, transfer the hominy to a quart pail.
Cook and serve
Place the pail in a kettle of boiling water and cover tightly.
Steam for 1 hour.
Add the sweet milk and boil for an additional 15 minutes.
Serve hot.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Hominy
- Forms the main body of the dish, softening as it steams and absorbs liquid.
- Sweet milk
- Adds richness and a creamy texture as it heats through with the hominy.
The step that matters
Steam with the pail covered tightly. Covering the pail traps steam around the hominy so it cooks gently and evenly while the surrounding boiling water does the heating. A loose cover lets steam escape and can leave the grain unevenly cooked.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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