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["Stephanie English" <steph.english@gmail.com>]

I do the hominy too.  I made a pouch out of an old pillowcase, put about a
cup of wood ash in it, and tied it tightly with string and put it in a big
boiling canner full of flint corn, and boiled it eight hours.  You can see
the little transparent shells break down and come off the kernels by the
end, it's amazing.  I used a little of the hominy fresh, and then dried the
rest in a slow oven overnight so I could store it on my shelves with my dry
beans.

Hominy makes an amazing stew with fish and sage.

Steph
Great Valley, NY


On 12/14/06, Lisa Rollens <rollens@fidnet.com> wrote:
> I used wood ashes to make hominy last year with an old recipe.  It worked
> and was good!  The ashes aren't used to make lye, the corn is soaked and
> cooked in ash water, as the first step.
>
> Lisa, in the MO Ozarks, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norris Thomlinson" <scrub@corrupt.net>
> To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wood Ashes
>
>
> > Hi Scott-
> >
> >> Anyone know of any uses for wood ashes??  Besides lye soap and used to
> >> sweeten or alkalinize the soil.
> >
> > I've come across references to use of wood ash lye in preparing corn, to
> > prevent the vitamin deficiencies caused by a diet high in corn.  It's
> the
> > same idea as using lime with the corn--but wood ash (especially or maybe
> > only? from hard woods) is another way to process it.  The wood ash lye
> is
> > created by leaching water through the ashes.  I don't know whether or
> not
> > the process is identical to that for preparing lye for soap.
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
> > Norris Thomlinson
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