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[toni eddleman <tonitime AT juno.com>]

Hi Susan Jane!
     I saw your post on corn, when gleaning thru all the politics!   Most
refreshing :)
I also like to make parched corn for a snack - and used my Bloody Butcher
this last year around - yum!  I also added to one batch - some garlic
powder, and  some salad dressing powder, such as Penzey's spice company
sells.  Big Yum!
    I know what you mean about the old timers storing the corn outdoors,
tho that was more applicable for larger families or communities.  As one
or two-person households, i always shell my corn and put it into gallon
jars to be frozen for a few days, once - or twice, if to be used later in
a year.  Just enough to kill weevils, their eggs, and other pests. Then,
it is pantry ready - like all the other grains, beans, and  other
legumes.  It just doesn't take that much to feed us for a year, or more
until the next crop.   Besides, all those big jars and bins of bounty
make one feel so secure to see each day. 
    As i buy Hominy regularly, i sure would like to start making it here.
 Do you do that still?  We just had a wonderful soup the last two days -
Mexican Turkey-Veg- and Hominy (in lieu of dried 'Posole' corn).  This
went along with our first stove-lighting of the season, since temps
finally hit below freezing.  With the chipotles and wild turkey meat -
this soup was a bowl of heaven!  If you do hominy, i would love to hear
about it - tho i will internet to find the technique, i love to hear the
story from the maker, and not just read a technical account of the
process! 
    If this already came up - forgive the oversite.  I am more interested
in stead info, as i am about to reach my political saturation point, and
have been deleting for self preservation :)
I DO appreciate how much we all care about the events of the days lately
- after so much apathy  for so long......but may go mad if i hear much
more :)  Happens every election time....
May the Force be with us........we need it.
Toni in KY Appalachia
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