Name: Scalloped Hominy
Ingredients: boiled coarse hominy; minced meat or fish or grated cheese; 1 cup white sauce

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Scalloped Hominy

Ingredients

boiled coarse hominy
minced meat or fish or grated cheese
1 cup white sauce

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Assemble and bake

Arrange alternate layers of boiled coarse hominy and minced meat or fish or grated cheese in a baking dish.
Pour 1 cup of white sauce over the layers.
Bake 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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together2,167 recipes

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What each ingredient does

Boiled coarse hominy: Forms the bulk of the dish and gives it a soft, starchy body.
White sauce: Adds moisture and richness that keeps the layers tender as they bake.
Grated cheese: Melts and browns on top, adding savoury flavour and a golden crust.

“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.