hominy

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Bake in gem pans in a quick oven a half hour Hominy Pone 1 cupful of boiled hominy 1 cupful of white corn meal 2 cupfuls of milk 2 level tablespoonfuls of butter 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoonful of salt If the hominy is cold left-over hominy, add to it the milk, and when thoroughly smooth add the eggs, well beaten, then the butter, melted, and the corn meal.

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  1. noun Hulled and dried kernels of corn, prepared as food by boiling.

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  • He helped me beat my corn into hominy, and lent me his own little kettle to cook it in; so that about midnight I was able to break a fast of some sixteen or twenty hours. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • To reach his small room on the top floor, Lien had to climb the rickety stairway, up past the foul smelling Vinlander restaurant on the ground floor, from which the odor of grits, hominy, and meatloaves constantly poured, and a small clinic on the second floor where a medicine man still tended to the injuries and ills of Ghost Town with his strange western remedies. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • We carried on a small business the principal part of it being the making and selling of hominy, an article of food made from Indian corn which was in great demand in Hartford. —  Narrative of the Life of James Watkins
  • The version here isn't as stunning as the one served a couple of blocks over at Las Brisas de Apatzingan, but its nevertheless a find, a bracing stew of pork, hominy, onions and chiles that do what chiles do at their best: not napalm your senses, but rather open the palate.
  • Because every single word here seems like bromide and hominy, feel good oration (opiate) for the masses. —  Polstate.com
 

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  1. Short for Virginia Algonquian uskatahomen.

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  1. Formerly also written homony, hommony, homminey; from American Indian auhuminea, parched corn (Webster's Dict.).
 

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