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Steamed Hominy

Steamed hominy cooked with water, salt, and sweet milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Steamed Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak hominy in water and salt overnight.

  2. In the morning, transfer it to a quart pail.

Steam and finish

  1. Place the pail into a kettle of boiling water.

  2. Cover tightly and steam for 1 hour.

  3. Add sweet milk and cook for an additional 30 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.

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What each ingredient does

Hominy
Overnight soaking and steaming soften the dried kernels into tender, swollen grains.
Sweet milk
Adds moisture, richness and mild sweetness as it cooks into the hominy.

“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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