"Jim Davis" > wrote in message
> >Back in the late 1940's or early 1950's when Mom was making tamale pie
without
> >corn husks, we grew our own corn and I suppose that maybe Mom and Dad
might
> >have occasionally used the dried corn husks for something else when they
were
> >kids in the Midwest---when they ran out of pages in the Sears catalog...
I have tried corn cobs, they may be a grade better than the slick pages of
the Sears
catalogue. You should soften them up by rubbing them before you use them.
Ernie