Hominy as a Vegetable

Ingredients

• 1 breakfast-cupful of Hominy
• 1 pint of water
• a small lump of salt
• loz. of butter
• 1 teaspoonful of sugar
• two eggs
• 1 teacupful of milk

Method

1. 1

   Wash the Hominy and boil it in water with salt for one hour.

2. 2

   If it gets too dry, add milk.

3. 3

   Mix hot Hominy with butter and sugar.

4. 4

   Beat eggs and milk, then mix with Hominy.

5. 5

   Pour into a shallow dish and bake.

6. 6

   Serve as a vegetable.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 118. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint of water and a small lump of salt, and boil it for one hour without stirring, but should it get too dry, 1 teacupful of milk can be added. When cooked, take 2 breakfast-cupfuls of the Hominy, and mix with it while still hot l|oz. of butter and 1 teaspoonful of sugar. Beat two eggs and 1 teacupful of milk, then mix with the Hominy ; turn the whole into a shallow dish, and bake in a quick oven. Serve the Hominy as a vegetable. Hominy Soup. — Make as much clear soup as will be required, and season it highly. Add about 2 breakfast-cupfuls of Hominy for every 3 pints of the soup, and boil for half-an-hour. Break three eggs into a soup-tureen, pour in 1 teacupful of milk, and beat them well. Pour the soup gradually over the beaten eggs, stirring continually, dust over a small quantity of finely-chopped chives and grated nutmeg, and serve. Stewed Hominy. — Wash 1 breakfast-cupful of Hominy, put it over the fire in a saucepan with 2qts. of cold water, bring it slowly to the boil, and boil it gently for about four hours, or until it is quite soft ; then drain, and place it where the water will evaporate. Prepare a cream sauce as follows : Put 2 table-spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan on the fire and partly melt it ; when soft, gradually stir into it A pint of cream or an equal quantity of milk ; if cream is used, add it to the Hominy as soon as hot ; if milk, take it off the ffre when hot, stir into it the yolks of two eggs

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