Boiled Hominy
Ingredients
Directions
Soak
Soak the hominy in water with salt overnight.
In the morning, transfer it to a quart container.
Cook
Place the container in a kettle of boiling water, cover tightly, and steam for 1 hour.
Add the sweet milk and boil for an additional 15 minutes.
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
- Fine hominy
- Forms the main body of the dish, becoming soft and tender as its starches cook.
- Sweet milk
- Adds richness and sweetness and softens the texture of the finished dish.
The step that matters
Steaming in a covered container. The container must be covered tightly and set in boiling water so the hominy cooks by steam without water seeping in. Keeping the heat steady and gentle lets the grains soften evenly through to the center rather than turning mushy or staying firm at the core.
“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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