To Hull Corn
Ingredients
Directions
Soak
Combine corn and baking soda in a bowl.
Add enough water to cover the corn.
Let it soak overnight.
Cook
Boil the corn in the same water until the hulls can be rubbed off.
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
- Corn
- Is the grain being processed, its hulls loosened so they can be removed.
- Baking soda
- Alkaline agent that softens the hulls so they loosen during soaking and boiling.
The step that matters
Boil until the hulls can be rubbed off. Hulls loosen only after the alkaline soak and boil have softened them. Under-cooked corn keeps its hulls tightly attached, making removal difficult, while the alkaline water breaks down the outer layer.
“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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