The sun., 1917-07-03
WHEN CORN rs KING.
Some Recipes Suited to Northern Ap'
petites.

To THE EDITOR or THE Su.r--sir: Some
time ago THE SUN gave n column Of
Southern recipes for cooking cornmeal.
Southern people, but not In the least
attractive to any one else.
In the first place the article advised
the use OF white corn. That Is best for
the South; colder climates should select
the yellow meal.
This talk Of making soup from pea
pods and greens from a few lettuce
leaves Is all hysteria. But wondrous
saving Of wheat can be made by using
corn, rye and buckwheat and the peo-
pie be immeasurably the better for the
addition to the diet.
Begin with the farmer as he selects
his seed corn. Here an ear, there
another, and always the very fullest
and best. A wisp OF the inner husk
is left on each and all put aside. When
enough are secured they are braided in
about yard lengths and hung to dry
in some airy place ready for next years
planting.
Then comes the selection of more best
ears this for hulled corn, and put
through the corn shelter by themselves.
These will give large, full kernels and
are boxed separately. When the family
calls for hulled corn the householder
puts q shovelful of ashes in huge
iron kettle. pours in tho amount of
corn wanted. stirs 1t briskly with a
wooden paddle and lets 1t boil till the
outer husk breaks. Then the corn is
SKINNED out into a ten quart pan and
Mi r,tnp 1Hy
between the palms until all the husks
separate and are hoated of, leaving the
great white kernels. To serve heat in
sufficiently salted water. drain and serve
| with milk. The kernels are whole and
white, very attractive in appearance.
Hominy Is made from this assorted
best corn cracked in the mill, each
kernel broken into six or eight pieces.
! This Is boiled long time and eaten in
| bowls of milk.
Again, samp is ground on closer stones
and comes out fine enough for breakfast
| food. All breakfast foods made from
wheat could be well and wisely replaced
by samp.
In the South this dish is served as a
vegetable. or goodness knows Just what.
to be eaten on the plate with potato
| and meat. have tried to eat IT that
way. but I could never like it,
Another turn of the screw on the
miller's great stones and we have corn
meal Let us see what we can do
| with It.
First let's bake rye n'injun" bread.
One-third rye -four two-thirds yellow
cornmeai, uolasses (to suit the taste).
salt and little yeast. Put in the round
| bottomed iron pan we'll creased, let
rise. and bake This loaf is delicious
cut hot and just about as good when
sliced thin and served with meat din
ners for a week.
! Then make johnnycake. One-third
-four Cor rye), two-thirds yellow corn
meal, a little shortening salt. and II
you have sour milk use soda IL not
use baking powder and water with a
little molasses or brown sugar. Bake
in pie tin and when served on the
plate alternate each slice one the golden
yellow top, one the golden brown bot
tom.
! II preferred make mufTins-just the
same recipe except that the muffin tins
make attractive little cakes. Take a
Yankee woman's advice and don't at
tempt to make hoecakes or corn pone
out of meal and water. That is chicken
feed and don't seem to a Northern per-
son to be At for anything else. And
don't waste your eggs on egg bread"
Put your eggs into a custard and use
your muffins without
Corn griddle cakes are excellent Al
ways remember the one-third -four OF
rye, sweeten a little and use soda OF
baking powder as you do or do not have
sour milk. And SAL. Serve with
syrup, and II made right there will
never be any left.
A well cooked cornmeal mush makes
delicious breakfast food. and well
cooked mush set over night in a mould
and fried a crisp brown for breakfast
Is an attractive dish.
| I could give an endless number oi
recipes for cooking cornmeal II desired
There is a cornmeal pudding that cannot
be beaten. Thin cornmeal Cruel vel
cooked and served with milk make.
one Of the very best foods for the sick
II only one spoonful can be taken at &
time II will be found more nourishint
than broths and far more appetizlng.
MAuDE MEREDITH.
BRooKLYS, July ?.