Homestead mailing list

[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT gmail.com>]

 Yeah, I do remember James giving a tutorial, but I hate searching the 
archives.
I'm thinking that modern marketing has just dropped the word hominy.

We don't have the bag the grits came in any longer.  I don't want to dig 
through the trash to find it.  It came in a small bag, like dried beans.

Any suggestions for using the remaining 'yellow grits'?

On 10/17/2010 6:41 PM, Marie Mcharry wrote:
> I've had grits, cornmeal, and polenta. Grits are white and made from hominy. 
> Cornmeal is usually yellow unless made from white corn; it's corn kernels 
> ground to various degrees of fineness. Polenta is fine-ground cornmeal.
>
> And then there's masa, which is used for tortillas. It's made from 
> lime-treated corn kernels that are then ground. I'm not clear how it differs 
> from grits except that it's finer ground. I buy mine from Wally World, so I 
> don't know about making it. I think James explained the process here a couple 
> of years ago.
>
> This is all I know on the issue. Regarding the yellow grits: check to see if 
> lime is an ingredient. If not, what you have is cornmeal.
>
>
> On Oct 17, 2010, at 1:43 PM, EarthNSky<erthnsky AT gmail.com>  wrote:
> E
> > Okay, we are part of the 'grit-eating' world, and have never eaten or tasted 
> > polenta, per se.  It was always my understanding that grits are made from 
> > hominy which is made from soaking corn kernels in lye.  The hominy is then 
> > dried and ground, voila, grits.  Polenta, I thought, was more akin to corn 
> > meal, just a course ground meal.  In Dixie, cornmeal is used in frying, and 
> > in making cornbread, which I have always thought would be closer to what 
> > polenta would be like than grits.
> > Now mind you, I grew up eating Quaker instant grits-blasphemy, I know, to 
> > some, but common enough for you to know what that is.  Now, we mostly use the 
> > long cook version, still Quaker, but we like the course ground, long cook 
> > grits.  I eat grits with butter and sometimes cheese or sausage or bacon.  I 
> > don't put eggs in them the way dh does, nor ham, nor onions, nor sugar nor 
> > milk, nor anything else that I have ever heard of using to flavor grits.    I 
> > think I am rather simplistic in my grits preferences, but I should also 
> > include that  I have eaten leftover fried grits and a cheese grit casserole 
> > with fried fish.
> >
> > So here we are in Kroger yesterday (I rarely shop at Kroger anymore, but wanted some 
> > organic cherry juice that only they carry) and dh puts a bag of Quaker "yellow 
> > corn grits" in the buggy.  We later had a discussion about the difference and I 
> > told him what I knew about so called hominy grits, and that the lye removed the color, 
> > I thought.  He went to the web for answers.  He looked at Wikipedia? and found a page 
> > that suggested that the only difference between yellow grits and white grits was the 
> > color of the corn kernel.  He found something else that likened the process to the 
> > difference between brown rice and white rice, equating yellow grits with brown 
> > rice-degerminated.    So is this degerming process the whole lye to hominy stage?  Have 
> > we just dropped the word hominy from hominy grits and just call them grits, or are 
> > grits and hominy grits separate things still?  Are Quaker instant grits really instant 
> > hominy grits?  Are Quaker long cook grits really hominy grits sinc
>   e they are white and degermed, even though it
> _______________________________________________
> Homestead list and subscription:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
> Change your homestead list member options:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/erthnsky%40gmail.com
> View the archives at:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead

--
EarthNSky Farm  34.498N 85.076W
SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas: guts, pep,
determination, stubbornness, perseverance, hardiness, stamina, go, do,
nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit.  It's like "Just Do It!"&  "Go for It!")