"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> 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.



You're exactly right. I amend my statement to ask "What hull?"

Jill <--who has canned hominy in her pantry