Steamed Hominy
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the hominy in water and salt overnight.
In the morning, transfer the hominy to a quart pail.
Steam and finish
Place the pail in a kettle of boiling water, cover tightly, and steam for 1 hour.
Add the sweet milk and cook for an additional 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
- Main body of the dish; soaking and steaming soften the kernels until tender.
- Sweet milk
- Adds richness and creamy moisture as it cooks into the hominy.
The step that matters
Cover the pail tightly while steaming. A tight cover traps the steam around the hominy, keeping heat and moisture steady so the kernels cook evenly instead of drying at the surface.
“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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