SC - Polenta and Cornmeal

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/29/2000 12:10:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
mermayde at juno.com writes:

<< 1) why are some corn (and other food
 products) treated with lye and 2) what does it accomplish, and 3) Are
 there alternatives to this process? >>

Dried corn keeps almost indefinitely, but it's kinda hard to eat.  Soaking it 
in lye not only softens it, but also bleaches it.  There is a company out 
there, called Manning Hominy company that claims their process uses no lye,  
Don't kow how they do it, or how they can call it hominy without the lye.

Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)