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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 4, 2010 19:23:17 GMT -5
Following of the thread posted earleir by another member on making quinoa palatable. I was wondering if anyone out there had any tips on making maiz chulpe (cancha corn) palable. As I am now more or less comitted and bound by oath to growing corn of this type this coming season, and its a selection based growth (which means they're going to be an awful lot of "reject corn to use up) I decided that I had better practice cooking it. To this end I went out and got a bag of yellow cancha and began to experiment. However all of the methods I have heard of with regards to preparing the stuff (toasting it, frying it etc.) all seem to end up tasting and feeling rather like chewing packing foam. so I was wondering, is there ayone out there who has any tips on making the stuff tasty?
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Post by spacecase0 on Mar 4, 2010 20:01:01 GMT -5
maybe you could sell it to others as food.
have you tried making deep fried hominy with it ?
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 4, 2010 21:20:01 GMT -5
A good idea with the slight problem that I have been specifically forbidden by my family members from trying to nixtimize corn myself (which I what you have to do to convert raw corn into hominy); they're terrified I'l injure myself with the boiling lye
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 4, 2010 23:14:14 GMT -5
Grind it up.
Feed it to the chickens.
Eat the chickens.
Yum, one of my favorite foods.
Regards,
Joseph
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Post by spacecase0 on Mar 5, 2010 1:29:27 GMT -5
A good idea with the slight problem that I have been specifically forbidden by my family members from trying to nixtimize corn myself (which I what you have to do to convert raw corn into hominy); they're terrified I'l injure myself with the boiling lye that would be a problem, sodium hydroxide can be dangerous, why not use the extract of wood ashes, it will do the same as lie does, I think that might be lie, but it might be more potassium hydroxide in it, and your family might not know what it is in that form. but sneaking around will not help anything... by the way, I thought that most people use the lime powder, (Calcium hydroxide, called slaked lime, hydrated lime, slack lime, or pickling lime ) to nixtimize, and it is not so bad. |
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 5, 2010 2:28:47 GMT -5
actually all of my books specifically said if not lye, then quicklime (a little less dangerous than lye but still fully capable of taking off your face (and remember that old fashioned nixtimizing basically means stiffing a cauldron of this stuff when its boiling so that you're getting the vapors full in the face. There is a reason the traditional "pioneer method" was usually done outdoors. Wood ashes will work but they take a very long time (couple of weeks I think)
Goes and looks online. Oh well it looks like you were right you can use slaked lime and apperently that part can be done at room temperature withot vapors (the commercial one is done with boiling to be faster) I see how that works
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Post by spacecase0 on Mar 5, 2010 12:46:30 GMT -5
you are right, not a thing to be doing inside...
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