Grinding corn today!

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 23, 2015

We pulled out the cast iron wheat grinder today. Took about an hour to triple grind some dent corn and some dehydrated corn into corn meal. Barb (my dear prepper woman) is in the process of cooking it down to "corn mush."

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 23, 2015

Cooked down the meal and we are making "corn mush." Combined about 2 cups of the corn meal and 2 quarts of water. The meal actually expands and you end up with a lot of "corn mush" for your efforts. We add some butter at the end and salt and pepper to taste. After you let it cool it congeals and you can slice it up and fry it. Very good stuff. Very inexpensive and lots of it. The half stick of butter costs more than the corn.

We plan to put back several hundred pounds of this dent corn ($35 for 50 pounds at Honeyville) and use it to feed the hungry who come to our door. So far we have 150 pounds plus about a hundred pounds of dehydrated corn. We have to find a way to store the dent corn and prevent it from molding. Even if you pack this corn in mylar bags and an oxygen absorber.... it can still develop mold. This is because even dent corn has a 10-15% water content. Water content means mold can grow. We had at least one sealed jar of corn mold. If you open it up it will smell like and old dishrag. Toss it.
We have a book from Amish which says you can roast the corn before you store it and that will reduce the water content. It has to be less than 5%. That may be our next move.
Dids

Tallguy88 · Aug 23, 2015

Way cool. I need to ask my grandma about this stuff. She lived on a farm in the country growing g up and they did this sort of stuff.

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 23, 2015

Yes... grandmothers are good. It is a shame that so few of us paid attention to our grandmothers while we had the chance. My grandmother was an avid gardener. I remember her coming to our house in mid summer with bags of vegetables. She knew how to do "stuff".
Tragic that so much of this information has gone by the way. One day many of us will wish we paid attention.

Truthfrees · Aug 24, 2015

Didaskalos said:
Yes... grandmothers are good. It is a shame that so few of us paid attention to our grandmothers while we had the chance. My grandmother was an avid gardener. I remember her coming to our house in mid summer with bags of vegetables. She knew how to do "stuff".
Tragic that so much of this information has gone by the way. One day many of us will wish we paid attention.

My dad grew up in a household that smoked all their meat and fish so they didn't need to refrigerate it.

They also had a cold room deep in the earth where they kept all their veggies all summer and winter because the temperature was constant.

I heard of a guy in India who came from a potter family. He made a stand alone refrigerator by placing a huge clay pot the size of a mini fridge inside a huger clay pot. There was sand filling the space between the 2 clay pots. Water was poured into the sand space, a cheesecloth covered the top like a lid. The evaporation caused a cooling effect and the inner pot was cold enough to keep milk. They were working with a Christian organization to provide one of these for every family. The clay refrigerator had to be kept in a shady spot.

Awesome forum. Thanks Dids and CF admin for creating this for us.

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FreeinChrist · Aug 24, 2015

My grandparents and parents knew so much about food storage and living inexpensively, and I wish I paid more attention. They went through the great depression and WWII and things were lean.

I do see folks where I live buying big bags of corn kernels. They grind it down to cornmeal and make corn tortillas or cornbread or fritters. i buy smaller bags as popcorn is a good treat.

FreeinChrist · Aug 24, 2015

Here is an interesting site as to what to do with ground corn and about cornmeal vs. corn flour:
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/qu...e-difference-between-corn-flour-and-corn-meal

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 24, 2015

FreeinChrist said:
Here is an interesting site as to what to do with ground corn and about cornmeal vs. corn flour:
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/qu...e-difference-between-corn-flour-and-corn-meal

Thanks for the link...

Tallguy88 · Aug 24, 2015

FreeinChrist said:
Here is an interesting site as to what to do with ground corn and about cornmeal vs. corn flour:
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/qu...e-difference-between-corn-flour-and-corn-meal

Reading that now...

Tallguy88 · Aug 24, 2015

Here's another good link I found, with lots of instructions: http://www.food-skills-for-self-sufficiency.com/making-cornmeal.html

FreeinChrist · Aug 24, 2015

Speaking of corn - The ice cream store near me actually makes Sugar Corn ice cream.
Here are some recipes for it:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sweet-corn-ice-cream-102304
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sweet-corn-ice-cream

tturt · Aug 26, 2015

Located an old copy of Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living which is loaded with information on a large number of topics.

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 27, 2015

Tallguy88 said:
Here's another good link I found, with lots of instructions: http://www.food-skills-for-self-sufficiency.com/making-cornmeal.html

Nice... thanks!

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 27, 2015

tturt said:
Located an old copy of Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living which is loaded with information on a large number of topics.

So is that like the old "Farmers Almanac"?

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 29, 2015

Purchased 8 pounds of frozen corn this weekend. Dehydrated it reduced down to one package which was vacuum packed with an oxygen absorber. Packed away and ready for use whenever!

Fireinfolding · Aug 29, 2015

Theres a video over at Youtube by Misty Prepper called "The preppers last meal" and that was interesting, especially what she shows in the end (frying this corn stuff she made with it) and she made alot of food out of just two ears of corn

This is just a picture at the end of the video

But those two loaf pans were two ears grinded.

She gives the recipe (its ridiculously easy) its grinded corn salt and water boiled down, it becomes a gel chilling it in loaf pans and then she cuts them flours them and fries them. Its sorta strange, but she shows how sharing something like this with the hungry how something like this is easy and how so little food can go far and yet be tasty too.

I want to make it just to see for myself what it tastes like

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 29, 2015

We watch Misty Prepper and in fact that video is the source of our inspiration to put away dent corn to feed the poor and hungry who come to our door. We have over 200 pounds now and will jump that up to 350 by the beginning of next month. We are putting it into foodsaver bags with an oxygen absorber. It is not the best or most nutritious food, but it is very inexpensive and it can make twice as much food by weight. The ratio of corn to water is 1 cup of ground corn to 1 quart of water. When cooked it expands and you end up with a good amt of food for just a cup of ground corn. Of course we add other things to it like bacon, butter, green onions, cream, salt & pepper, your favorite cheese, etc...
We just cannot bare the idea of turning away hungry children. We will do what we can by our own hand and then trust the lord to multiply what we do. I trust He will bless us in this work to help feed hungry and hopeless people.

A couple hints from our first attempt.
Grind that corn as fine as you can. We are putting the stuff through 3 and 4 times.(Barbara reminds me that we plan to sift out anything larger than a "grit" the next time we do this)
Cook it as long as you need to in order to bring it to a smooth but thick soup.
Do not put butter in the batch that you plan to gel and fry. The butter will cause the gelled "batter" to fall apart in the frying pant as the butter melts. Just coat the gelled corn mixture with flour and drop it directly into that HOT fry pan. Do not fool with it. Let it brown on one side, then carefully turn it over with a spatula.
Love it. Great stuff for literally pennies.

Fireinfolding said:
Theres a video over at Youtube by Misty Prepper called "The preppers last meal" and that was interesting, especially what she shows in the end (frying this corn stuff she made with it) and she made alot of food out of just two ears of corn

This is just a picture at the end of the video

But those two loaf pans were two ears grinded.

She gives the recipe (its ridiculously easy) its grinded corn salt and water boiled down, it becomes a gel chilling it in loaf pans and then she cuts them flours them and fries them. Its sorta strange, but she shows how sharing something like this with the hungry how something like this is easy and how so little food can go far and yet be tasty too.

I want to make it just to see for myself what it tastes like

Fireinfolding · Aug 29, 2015

Didaskalos said:
We watch Misty Prepper and in fact that video is the source of our inspiration to put away dent corn to feed the poor and hungry who come to our door. We have over 200 pounds now and will jump that up to 350 by the beginning of next month. We are putting it into foodsaver bags with an oxygen absorber. It is not the best or most nutritious food, but it is very inexpensive and it can make twice as much food by weight. The ratio of corn to water is 1 cup of ground corn to 1 quart of water. When cooked it expands and you end up with a good amt of food for just a cup of ground corn. Of course we add other things to it like bacon, butter, green onions, cream, salt & pepper, your favorite cheese, etc...
We just cannot bare the idea of turning away hungry children. We will do what we can by our own hand and then trust the lord to multiply what we do. I trust He will bless us in this work to help feed hungry and hopeless people.

A couple hints from our first attempt.
Grind that corn as fine as you can. We are putting the stuff through 3 and 4 times.
Cook it as long as you need to in order to bring it to a smooth but thick soup.
Do not put butter in the batch that you plan to gel and fry. The butter will cause the gelled "batter" to fall apart in the frying pant as the butter melts. Just coat the gelled corn mixture with flour and drop it directly into that HOT fry pan. Do not fool with it. Let it brown on one side, then carefully turn it over with a spatula.
Love it. Great stuff for literally pennies.

Shes one of my favorites to watch, that was an older video since then she has lost a lot of weight but I really like her videos.

In otherwords, follow her instructions carefully huh? ^_^

Between grain and rice we have ton, of corn not so, we have a few cases of sweet corn though

This stuff is great to eat "as is" without cooking it

Its on sale, see? ^_^

Thats hard to resist, Im eyeballing this being on sale now lol

But they have this other one there that has the butter and salt in it (thats killer too)

They sell the 45 pound superpail of popcorn which you can make cornmeal from too.

Its not the blue corn but you can get that elsewhere (I try to get out of growing it) corn was always my least favorite to grow, takes up space, deer always got it, that bugged me.

katerinah1947 · Aug 29, 2015

FreeinChrist said:
Here is an interesting site as to what to do with ground corn and about cornmeal vs. corn flour:
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/qu...e-difference-between-corn-flour-and-corn-meal

Hi,
And here is an article on home made yeasts: https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/bittersweet/sp79i.htm
Can yeasts be used with corn flour???
LOVE,
...Mary., .... .

SavedByGrace3 · Aug 31, 2015

Got some chicken on sale this weekend. A pack of thighs, breasts, and a pack of pork chops also.
Pulled them out tonight and vacuum packed them with the food saver. Enough in each pack to create a meal for Barb and myself. Our freezer has reached it's max. I don't think we can cram another thing in there.

Grinding corn today!

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