Hominy
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the hominy in boiling water overnight in a covered tin vessel.
In the morning, add sweet milk and salt.
Cook
Place the tin vessel in a kettle of boiling water.
Boil for 30 minutes.
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
- Is the main grain; soaking softens its hard kernels so they cook through and turn tender.
- Sweet milk
- Adds richness and a soft, creamy texture to the cooked hominy.
The step that matters
Soak the hominy overnight. Hominy kernels are dense and hard. A long soak in hot water hydrates the starch and shortens cooking, so the grains become tender rather than tough.
“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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