To Boil Hominy
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak hominy in water overnight.
Wash the hominy well the next morning.
Cook and serve
Boil the hominy until thoroughly cooked.
Season with salt and 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.
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What each ingredient does
- Hominy
- Forms the main body of the dish; soaking and boiling soften its tough kernels so they become tender.
The step that matters
Boil the hominy until thoroughly cooked. Dried hominy kernels stay firm and chewy if undercooked. Long simmering gelatinizes the starch and softens the tough hull, so the kernels become tender throughout.
“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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