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By cubester1 (Cubester1) on Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 01:10 am: Edit

A few weeks ago in a pop corn tek discusion I brought up the idea of using Homony. No one posted a response so..being the curiouse one that I am I decided to give it a shot. I picked up a can of Homony at the local grocer. Drained it. Filled a full pint about 3/4 full. PC'd it for 45 minutes. I then transfered a few small pieces of myc. from a sterile BRF cake. The first 2 days things looked to be going no where. I had written the project off about 80%, thinking there must be preservatives in the Homony. But...on day three I awoke and hee is what we have.

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This is quite an explosion. Considering only 24 hours before there was almost no growth. The dark area within is just some vermic that got in with the transfer, no worries of contams so far. Now the question..why use Homony??? Not real sure of the possibilites yet. But it does look like it may be worth more investigation on this end.

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Okay now I was basically ridiculed for mentioning this earlier but... Thus far I'm finding that the "Hominy Project" is turning out very well. Now granted for the large scale grower or more advanced grower it may not be the thing. For the new guy I think it could be a great starter.
There is no mixing of ingredients and little preparation on this method. A can of Hominy is ONLY 37 cents, that less than 3 bucks for 12 jars. Pretty cheap 2 cans will do 3 1/2 pints. This is cheaper than buying BRF and Vermic. Plus you just need to drain the extra liquid off the hominy dump into the jars and PC or boil. Then Innoc. Very easy and painless. This is 2 1/2 weeks after innoc. Will post more as this progresses

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so there you have it, that's what we have so far.

here's a quickie recipe for making hominy, if anyone cares to, but it seems more likely that just buying hominy at your local grocery store and dumping the contents, once drained, into the jars for pc'ing might be a great alternative for some.

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Making Home Made Hominy
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Recipe by Brandie
Hominy, simply, is hulled corn, whole, coarsly broken or ground into small pieces of about the same size. Sometimes hominy is called samp, especially when it is very coarse. Pearl hominy is whole grain hominy with the hulls removed by machinery. Lye hominy is whole grain hominy cooked in lye water. Granulated hominy is a ground form and hominy grits are broken grains. When I was a kid I had a girlfriend whose grandmother was a wounderful southern lady. They always had grits for breakfast, but they were served as a side dish to ham, eggs and biscuits, as a substitute for potatoes. Everyone eats them differently, but they are good with just butter and salt. Some people put their fried eggs on top, or homestyle gravy with biscuits and grits is another country type breakfast. The following recipe describes the lye method of removing the hulls.

1 qt. dry field corn
4 qt. water
1 oz. lye
Place in an enameled kettle and boil vigorously for 1/2 hour, then let stand for 20 minutes. Rinse several times with hot water, then rinse with cool water until you can handle the hominy to rub off the dark tips of the kernels. Float away the tips. Add water to cover hominy one-inch and boil 5 minutes.
Drain and repeat 4 times, then cook 1/2 hour or until kernels are tender.

Pack in 6 sterilized pint jars; add 1/4 teaspoon salt to each jar. Cover with boiling water; adjust lids and process in pressure canner, 240 degrees at 10 pounds pressure, 60 minutes. (If using quart jars, process 70 minutes.) This recipe will yield 6 pints of hominy.

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pussycontrol said:

damn hippie sockin it to the kids once again... good job sharing info.
we just cant stop at one thing can we. lol

btw. what is homoney? what department of grocerystore. 

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By john q. public (Jqpindahouse) on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 11:38 pm: Edit


If you live an area with a latin population, go to one of the supermercado's (supermarket) for cheap prices on hominy. I know someone who bought a 6 pound can for $2.50 and has it PC'ing already.

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