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To Cook Hominy

A simple method for cooking hominy with water, salt, and optional meat fryings or butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Cook Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cover the hominy with enough water in a pot.

  2. Cook for several hours until tender.

  3. Once done, season with coarse sea salt and meat fryings, or serve with butter.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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What each ingredient does

Hominy
Forms the dish's main body; cooking softens its tough kernels until tender.
Meat fryings
Adds fat and savory flavor when used as a seasoning on the cooked hominy.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, moistening the tender hominy when served with it.

“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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