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Boiled Hominy

A simple boiled hominy dish seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the hominy in cold water and drain.

  2. Place the hominy in a pan and cover with water.

  3. Season with salt to taste.

  4. Boil for about 30 minutes and serve.

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 body of the dish; cooking softens its kernels to a tender, chewy texture.

“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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