Yes, Judy, it is made for white corn. In the old days when people lived on farms, there had to be a way for families to eat dried corn kernels during the long winters as all food was grown at home. Hominy is corn kernels soaked in lye water to remove the hulls and make the kernel puff up and be eatable. It is sort of a wet way to pop the hull whereas popcorn is a dry heat way to pop the hull off so you can eat the dried corn. All the lye is rinsed out of the food before it is eaten.
In those days, the hominy was allowed to dry again after the hull was popped off , coarsely ground and this made hominy grits. I think that grits are made differently now, perhaps just using the endosperm of the kernel and grinding coarsely. All the best, Susan Cochran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] chocolate eggs > on 3/30/02 1:32 PM, Susan Cochran at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Actually, Judy, white corn meal and grits are totally different. Grits are > > made from ground dried hominy which is corn that has been soaked in lye. > Why in the WORLD would this be done???? > > But all these are made from white corn as opposed to yellow corn, unless the > lye just bleaches out the yellow cornmeal to white. Lye? What does it do? > make it sour? > > Judy Gates > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
