(from the Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, Georgia, June 16, 1863)
Ingredients:
1 gallon shelled corn
1/2 gallon good ashes
Instructions:
Now that meal is hard to get about our villages and towns, we recommend lye hominy as a good substitute, at least as a change. The simple plan of preparing it is as follows; to a gallon of shelled corn add a half a gallon of good ashes. Boil together until the husk begins to come off the corn. Then rub briskly to clear the grain completely off the husk. Wash the corn clear and boil it for ten or twelve hours, adding water from time to time to keep it from burning. it is then ready, and only has to be warmed over for use as needed. It is perhaps better fried. This is said to be more wholesome than...