Green Corn, Maryland Style

Ingredients

• six ears of boiled green corn
• one-quarter of a pound of fat bacon
• add salt
• add cayenne

Method

1. 1

   Cut off the kernels from the boiled corn.

2. 2

   Cut the bacon into small strips and fry until crisp.

3. 3

   Remove bacon, add corn to the hot fat, toss for a few minutes, add salt and cayenne, then serve topped with bacon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheon (1888) by Thomas J. Murrey, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Corn, Maryland style. — Take six ears of boiled green com when cool enough to handle, and cut off the kernels. Cut one- quarter of a pound of fat bacon in little strips, then in very small dice, and fry them crisp. Take them out of the fat, and add the com to the hot fat, toss it about a few minutes, add salt and cayenne

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