The fields of green corn blanketing our farmlands here in Lancaster are beautiful. As harvest time comes, Amish farmers are out in the fields with their horses cutting the stalks, and filling silos. Some Amish farmers still set up shocks of corn to dry in their fields, a rare sight in America nowadays. For the June dining issue of Amish Country News , we asked chefs at area restaurants to submit their favorite corn-based recipes. We thought we would see how many interesting recipes they could come up with.
Corn is a member of the grass family.
An ear of corn has about 800 kernels in its 16 rows. A good acre of corn might have up to 25,000 plants. A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds. A bushel of corn can provide 2.5 gallons of ethanol fuel, or about 32 pounds of sweetener or cornstarch. Over 3,000 products in the supermarket contain corn in some form, including cereals, snack foods, margarine, oil, puddings, soda, and soap.