[Sca-cooks] Corn, was Return of the Wanderer (partly OT)

[A F Murphy]

Either you are getting field corn rather than sweet corn, or it is not
as fresh as it should be (well, it should be picked about 5 minutes
before you eat it, but most of us can't manage that... at least fresh
that day) or quite possibly both. Field corn is starchy. That is how you
make corn meal, and it also is used as animal feed. (Probably different
strains, I don't know that much.) Up in the country, I'm used to seeing
a field of corn grown for cattle feed, with 2 rows around it of sweet
corn grown for personal use and sale at a farm stand. They're selected
to pollinate at different times, so the sweet corn doesn't get mealy.

Anne

Volker Bach wrote:

>  It still has a bit of an
>exotic cachet (especially corn on the cob, which
>costs between 50 cents and a dollar an ear in
>season and is unaffordable out of it) or the taint
>of swinefood, depending on whoi you ask, but it's
>available. My real problem is that most kinds of
>corn grown over here seem to be on the mealy side.
>
>Giano
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