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Hominy is cooked corn kernels boiled with water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the hominy carefully.

  2. Stir the hominy into twice the amount of boiling water.

  3. Add salt while cooking.

  4. Boil until done, which will take at least one hour.

  5. If using a double boiler, it will take longer.

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
Is the main ingredient; it softens and becomes tender as it cooks in 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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