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How do you use your corn?

 
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I know how everyone uses sweet corn but last year I experimented with some native American varieties, which are not meant to be consumed in the same way as sweet corn.  I grew Glass Gem corn, Hopi blue corn, and another that was bronze or reddish but not sure of the name.  My garden spot is new and I haven't had time to improve it so the corn was about the only thing that made but it produced well.  I let it dry on the plant, picked, shelled, and stored it with a tiny amount of food grade DE to keep the moths from eating it and it turned out wonderful.  I only had enough of the gem corn to eat because I saved the rest for my seed corn the next season.  I have a grain mill I purchased many years ago to use with wheat so I ran the gem corn through and it made some interesting corn meal.  So far I've made polenta and corn bread from it and it turned out wonderful.  I can't wait to try the hopi blue this year as I understand it is much more nutritious.  So what have you done with your corn and what varieties do you have?    
 
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We only grow Silver Queen for corn on the cob.

As a kid when I would visit my grandparents who bought their corn from a local farmer.  My aunt would make cream corn with real cream after slicing the corn off the cobs, it was so good.

There are some threads on the forum that talks about corn pudding:

https://permies.com/t/206217/kitchen/Holiday-Corn-Pudding

https://permies.com/t/142559/kitchen/Brazilian-Corn-Pudding
 
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We grind a little for cornbread and pancakes, but the vast majority of it is nixtamalized and made into masa for tortillas, sopes, chochoyotes, etc.
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