Dried Corn Hulled with Lye

Ingredients

• Put a pint of clear wood-ashes
• in two quarts of cold water
• Use enough of the lye thus made, mixed with an equal quantity of cold water, to cover the dried corn

Method

1. 1

   Put a pint of clear wood-ashes in two quarts of cold water over the fire, and boil them for fifteen minutes; then let the lye cool until the ashes settle at the bottom of the kettle, when the clear liquid is to be poured off and strained.

2. 2

   Use enough of the lye thus made, mixed with an equal quantity of cold water, to cover the dried corn; put the corn and lye-water over the fire, and boil them until the hulls begin to break off the corn; then drain the corn, throw it into cold water, and rub it between the hands, through several waters, until the hulls are all removed; it will then be ready to cook as samp.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 219. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRIED CORN HULLED WITH LYE. Put a pint of clear wood-ashes in two quarts of cold water over the fire, and boil them for fifteen minutes ; then l^t the lye cool until the ashes settle at the bottom of the kettle, when the clear Uquid is to be poured off and strained. Use enough of the lye thus made, mixed with an equal quantity of cold water, to cover the dried corn

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