jmcquown wrote:
>
> "whirled peas" > wrote in message
> >
> > Now, the problem. The recipes I've found on the 'net casually say "remove
> > the shells". I found they were still firmly attached to the kernels and
> > couldn't be removed. The hominy was starting to fall apart, so it was
> > probably overcooked. To my way of thinking, that should have just made the
> > shells easier to remove, but I dunno.
> >
> > How do you cook them just right so that you can remove the shells/hulls?
>
> Hominy is dried corn treated with lye. Why you'd want to remove the
> husk/hull is beyond me. There's a problem with the directions.

The lye removes the hull. There isn't any hull left
to remove.