Hominy Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the hominy
Pour boiling water over the hominy and let it stand overnight.
If it has absorbed too much water, add more.
Cook and serve
Boil for at least 30 minutes.
Stir in the butter just before serving.
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
- Its starch swells and thickens as it cooks, forming the body of the porridge.
- Butter
- Adds fat that enriches the texture and gives the porridge a smooth, rounded flavour.
The step that matters
Boil for at least 30 minutes. Heating hominy in water gelatinizes its starch, which softens the grains and thickens the liquid. Stopping early leaves the grains firm and the porridge thin and starchy.
“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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