I'm in the UK but for some time I've been interested in the history of corn. I think the process by which corn is turned into hominy is called nixtamalisation. I thought the story was that the Europeans learnt how to grow corn from native Americans but didn't learn how to cook it properly, thus ending up with what in Italy is called polenta, or in East Africa posho. (the Portuguese took corn to Africa). In poor areas, like Africa or Northern Italy, where people subsisted on cornmeal, they developed a disease called Pellagra.(bit like scurvy, I think; vitamin deficiency etc). It was also prevalent in the southern states of the US and only in the 1920s did a doctor whose name I can't remember make a connection between the disease and a diet of untreated cornmeal. Interestingly, you have to have the treated cornmeal to make corn tortillas. Untreated cornmeal, polenta, won't form a dough....I've tried it! Apparently every supermarket south of the Rio Grande sells bottles of "Cal", which is calcium carbonate. If you grow your own corn you put some Cal in the boiling water and you get hominy.

Great information. Loved the Video!!

Menudo is a hominy-based soup that is eaten regularly in Mexico and Nort America.

Good to see you living in hominy with nature and history.

good video!

My mammy and pappy always made good hominy together. Mammy played gitar and pappy played fiddle.

Very interesting. All my years involved in Rev-War reenactments and buckskinner rendezvous I never encountered Hominy. I've had Hominy grits a few times and it was ok, but never the full grain Hominy. So I purchased a can at the store today and it was VERY good. I'm going to try making some myself now.

Hominy rocks

Hominy grits is a whole lot better than corn meal mush for breakfast.

Not forgotten at all. Us folks in the south that grew up on hominy are still doing so. It's great for breakfast and in casseroles.

I eat hominy at least a couple of times a month, love it in chili , soup, stew .

Masa is flour made out of homony. Try cornbread made of this.

I enjoyed the presentation, I’d heard the word before but never knew what it was. Greetings from England 👍

Maza?

Hominy may have been forgotten up there in Yankee territory, but lots of Southerners eat hominy grits almost daily.

That is a nice maple tree behind you. Will you be tapping it this spring?

Have made this with my mom years ago Next time you make this try putting your wood ash into a bag it helps so much with the end product. 🌽

Hominy! Forgotten?! Dude's never heard of Pozole. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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But why?

Those are some pretty corny puns. How can we just sit around knowing that you're lyeing in wait, ready to pop up and disturb the hominy like that?

The forgotten food regularly eaten by millions of people? Our corporate cafeteria had pozole last week. It was pretty good. Good video; poor title.

I'm fairly certain hominy was made in poplar bowls til it popped, then cooked after washing in whatever.

So glad I found (and subscribed to) your site, on tracking. It's fascinating, along with many of the old American Indian and pioneer practices and skills. I'm 56 but never too late to learn. Thanks!

Great job again!

Hominy is a main part of Pozole which is as varied soup in Mexican cooking where each region has their favorite.

I grew up in Tennessee in the late 50s and early 60s. We had hominy and "hog", generally bacon fairly often. Of course we also had grits for breakfast. I vaguely remember my grandmother making hominy...but I think it was store bought often than not.

Posole, Pozole. Dried and ground it’s Grits. Been eating it sonce i was a little kid. In New Mexico it’s served as is or with carne adovado.

I've always wondered how cultures discovered how alkalinity unlocked proteins in carbohydrates. In Asia there are alkaline noodles such as ramen and Okinawa soba where potash was used in the noodle making process. My grandmother burnt wood into ashes and ran water through them to use in making the dough for Okinawa soba. Who in the world taught them that more protein would be made bio-available by this process? Or, did they even know that that was what was happening?

Corn has little nurtritional value hominy is great. Indians taught pilgrams to grow corn and hominy

I had a friend who worked in a hominy packing plant in the 50s and 60s.its a nasty process... He said he missed working there. Closed due to no demand. My grandma made it back in the 40s with stove ash in the winter. I'm guessing I would not have liked them any better than modern. Yuck...

That’s not European bacon (back bacon) That’s American bacon (belly bacon)

Love the "extras" you brought to the production, keep them in future episodes if possible. Your clothes are pretty new, clean and have not seen hard wear. Something to think about as you do more of these great presentations is to show the wear and tear your clothing acquires over time on the frontier.

Hominy is NOT a forgotten food. It’s still very commonplace throughout the Southern U.S., Mexico, and the Philippines. It can be had in any color corn can be had: white, yellow, blue, purple, brown, and many more.

Corn is NOT a “descendent” of grass. Corn IS grass. Just like wheat, and oats, and rice. ALL grains are grass.

Don't boil the corn when making hominy as it will cook the corn and turn it to mush. Instead, keep the corn in the ash solution at a temperature just below a simmer. This will take at least an hour,, depending on your alkali concentration. The hot water will allow the ash to soften the pericarp which can then be washed off and leave the corn kernel relatively whole. You can then dry the hominy for storage or put it on a boil to cook the corn as shown in the video.

Exhalent. Appreciate yours and everyones response.

I had a neighbour who used hominy corn. When she told me about it, I thought it was a dish from her colture ( she is Cree ). No I find out it goes back a long way.

Hominy is something that I eat on a regular basis. As a New Mexican, "posole" is a comfort food.

VERY COOL VID THANK YOU!

Native Americans have an enzyme that allows them to digest all of the corn, people of European, African, and Asian descent lack this enzyme.

Very interesting. Thanks

May YAH Bless

Love your videos always informative and entertaining keep it up

The Choctaw sent corn to Ireland to help keep people from starving during the Potato Famine.

If you can make hominy, you can make tortillas. Then you can make nachos. Nachos rule!

Love hominy, made it once using baking soda.

no recipe?

A book called Penobscot Man by Speck gives a detailed account of the flint cash at Mt. Kineo. Moosehead Lake was on the water travel ways.

Very nicely done.. can you do a history lesson on grits?