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To Boil Hominy

A simple boiled hominy dish seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the hominy in cold water overnight.

  2. In the morning, rinse the hominy and place it in a pot with cold water.

Cook

  1. Boil for 1.5 hours, stirring often.

Finish

  1. Once cooked, sprinkle with salt and let it stand uncovered for a few 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

White hominy
Forms the whole dish; its starch softens and swells as it simmers in water.

The step that matters

Boil for 1.5 hours, stirring often. Hominy is dense and starchy, so it can stick to the bottom of the pot and scorch. Regular stirring keeps the kernels moving in the water so they cook evenly and soften through.

“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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