Green Corn
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Add ½ cup of coarse sea salt to the boiling water.
Carefully add the corn to the pot.
Cook for 30 minutes.
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
- Corn
- Forms the main body of the dish, cooked through by simmering in salted boiling water.
“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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