Name: To Can Corn
Ingredients: 8 pints corn; 3 pints water; ½ pint coarse sea salt

To Can Corn

Ingredients

8 pints corn
3 pints water
½ pint coarse sea salt

Directions

Cook corn in water for 20 minutes.
Add coarse sea salt and cook for an additional 3 minutes.
Can the mixture in glass jars.
When ready to use, pour off the water and add fresh water.

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, providing the bulk and sweet flavour.
Coarse sea salt: Seasons the corn and adds savoury flavour during the cooking stage.

“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.