Hominy
Ingredients
Directions
Bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a large stewpan.
Wet 1 cup of hominy with cold water, then stir it into the boiling water.
Boil for 1 hour, stirring often.
Add ½ teaspoon of salt and boil for an additional hour.
If the mixture becomes too thick, add more boiling water.
If the mixture becomes too thin, boil longer.
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
- Hominy
- Forms the main body of the dish, softening and thickening as it simmers in water.
The step that matters
Stirring the hominy into the boiling water. Hominy can clump and stick to the bottom of the pot if added unevenly or left unstirred, so stirring often during the long simmer helps keep it smooth and prevents scorching.
“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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