To Boil Corn
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a pot of water to a boil.
Add a little coarse sea salt to the boiling water.
Carefully add the corn to the pot.
Boil the corn for 10 to 15 minutes.
Do not boil longer, as it will harden.
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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The step that matters
Timing the boil. Corn kernels are tender-crisp after 10 to 15 minutes. Overcooking toughens the kernel skins and makes the sweet kernels firm and chewy, so the timer matters more than the boil itself.
“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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