Here is a trivia fact. When cooking corn the Native peoples would add to the pot, a small portion of wood ash. The reason is culinary lye...Read More (aka potash), a mixture of water and wood ash to which corn is cooked in, removes the clear outer coating of each corn kernel (pericarp). Mixing wood ash and water together form potassium hydroxide, a natural caustic chemical, which makes hard proteins in the corn pericarp soluble. this process makes niacin and other micro-nutrients in corn digestible, which simmering dried corn in plain water does not.
Today, in place of the water-and-wood-ash brew is culinary lime, a white powder from purified, natural calcium deposits. It is mixed with water to make lime water. Hominy is dried corn simmered in lime water. I can also be called posole or nixtamal. Nixtamal is also the name of the cooking process.
this is a popcorn.
Here is a trivia fact. When cooking corn the Native peoples would add to the pot, a small portion of wood ash. The reason is culinary lye...Read More
A mini (4-5 inch ears) multicolor cultivar.