How to Make Hominy 

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Sorry to learn of her passing. But she will still be helping many through the ability to pass some knowledge through this video.

Randy, if you use this recipe, you will be disappointed. I grew up in the Appalachian and you don't want to use Lye. The color will be a lot different, save the ashes out of your heater, fire place and put them in a cloth and tie them up and toss the bag in the wash pot,, other wise it will be pale, or light yellow.The ashes will give it that grey look that we grew up with - yes this one will take a lot more washing,

what ratio of ash to water to corn do you use? Also do you guys rinse it 4 times with boiling water like this lady does? İn many other videos they just boil it 20 mins and let it sit overnight than rinse the corn with regular water until it runs clear. but this lady boils it 4 times.... this seems very complicated...

Lye not lime

Aye the video calls for Lye, However you can use Lime (not the fruit) to make Hominy :)

Upsets Airport Security too.

Not really. Lye is sodium hydroxide. Wood ashes contain mostly potassium hydroxide.

The lye is washed off and it actually makes the corn more nutritious...

Larry Tischler Presentation is important to many women.

@@rhapsodyman2000 It's how hominy is sold in stores, so I doubt it's about women's need for presentation and rather a need to follow commercial presentation, but go awf.

Tahtahme Xero ... so basically, you think I’m right?

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Yeah, it started in southern Mexico at least 10,000 years ago, and spread to the U.S. and even the Andes in South America, and we've been cultivating it ever since. There are numerous varieties we made out of it.

should have kept that BS in Mexico.

you seem to be under the impression that inventions are random artefacts of culture, the unique intellectual property of a lone inventor who's name deserves to be remembered in association with the invention until it is surpassed by some other random invention a few generations later. in the real world, that is not how it works. there is only one way to make hominy. and the reason to make it is that if you don't, and the majority of your diet is corn, you die a slow and painful death. it's not crazy that it traveled. it's inevitable. it is notable, however, that she's exaggerating the importance of some very specific things she personally does. for instance, you do not need to freeze the corn beforehand. and you do not need to use lye specifically. you need to dry the corn, and you need to cook it in an alkaline solution. lye is alkaline, but so is wood ash, bone ash, burnt eggshells, burnt clam shells, a piece of limestone, etc. so her fussiness over some things is actually just her being fussy, and probably actually not really understanding what is truly required to make hominy and what parts of her process are just ceremonial. and honestly, I'd recommend using anything I've listed other than lye, because lye is the most dangerous and the most expensive, and it doesn't really improve the end product compared to the alternatives. for instance, wood ash is so safe that you can do the nixtamalization with wood ash at the point of cooking the end product. like for example, piki is made by mixing ground corn with wood ash and water into a batter, and then painting that onto a hot oiled stone. the corn flour is just corn flour, not hominy flour, it becomes hominy when sitting as the batter and cooking into bread. and the wood ash cannot be removed at that point, because it's now integrated into the bread. so when she talks about having to wash the lye out... that's an extra step she's having to do because she chose her alkaline material poorly.

​@@sumdumbmick your comment is super insightful, I wish i could bookmark it

Yes it was!

my mother in law makes it with lime ( Cal ) cooks it and soaks it overnight on the kitchen. (not sure that method is safe thought)

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