I came across this the other day. "Ideally you need to make masa harina for
tortillas - so you have to get into nixtamalisation before grinding"

Anyone know what it means?

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"Ophelia" ku> wrote in message
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> I came across this the other day. "Ideally you need to make masa harina
> for tortillas - so you have to get into nixtamalisation before grinding"
>
> Anyone know what it means?

Ok I found it, but does anyone here do all that?

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On 2013-04-15, Ophelia > wrote:

> Ok I found it, but does anyone here do all that?

I'll not go into the entire story, but I tried to learn how to do it
so I could make authentic pozole soup. Fresh nixtamal has a unique
flavor and literally takes that dish from merely good to astonishingly
good. Usta be the process was fairly unknown to gringos, but now
there are all kinds of websites that show how. It's still a rather
tedious process, as you may have discovered.

http://chanfles.com/comida/nixtamal/

I may give it a shot again next Winter. Or jes order a couple cans of
Juanita's Posole soup, the best soup ever put in a can.

nb

"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2013-04-15, Ophelia > wrote:
>
>> Ok I found it, but does anyone here do all that?
>
> I'll not go into the entire story, but I tried to learn how to do it
> so I could make authentic pozole soup. Fresh nixtamal has a unique
> flavor and literally takes that dish from merely good to astonishingly
> good. Usta be the process was fairly unknown to gringos, but now
> there are all kinds of websites that show how. It's still a rather
> tedious process, as you may have discovered.
>
> http://chanfles.com/comida/nixtamal/
>
> I may give it a shot again next Winter. Or jes order a couple cans of
> Juanita's Posole soup, the best soup ever put in a can.

Thanks very much, Bob Do report back if you try it out again)

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On 2013-04-15, notbob > wrote:

>> Ok I found it, but does anyone here do all that?

Oh, I guess I didn't really address your question.

No. Most ppl, including Mexicans, jes buy canned hominy. Juanita's
sells hominy in gallon cans. My late step-mom, who was Mexican, would
go down to the local taqueria and buy a bag of fresh nixtamal. I
tried that at one of our local Mex mkts, which DID make their own
fresh tortillas, and asked for some fresh nixtamal, but the workers
looked at me like I was from outer space and feigned ignorance. Yer
basic "go away stupid gringo" act. So, it's make yer own or buy
canned.

If you can find someone who makes it and is willing to sell it to you,
go for it. It really is great in homemade pozole. As an FYI, it's
pronounced NEEZ-tah-mal.

nb

"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2013-04-15, notbob > wrote:
>
>>> Ok I found it, but does anyone here do all that?
>
> Oh, I guess I didn't really address your question.
>
> No. Most ppl, including Mexicans, jes buy canned hominy. Juanita's
> sells hominy in gallon cans. My late step-mom, who was Mexican, would
> go down to the local taqueria and buy a bag of fresh nixtamal. I
> tried that at one of our local Mex mkts, which DID make their own
> fresh tortillas, and asked for some fresh nixtamal, but the workers
> looked at me like I was from outer space and feigned ignorance. Yer
> basic "go away stupid gringo" act. So, it's make yer own or buy
> canned.

Thanks, Bob. I very much doubt I would find anyone here who makes such
things At least I don't know any Mexicans. I do like to know about
various foods and you have satisfied my curiousity


> If you can find someone who makes it and is willing to sell it to you,
> go for it. It really is great in homemade pozole. As an FYI, it's
> pronounced NEEZ-tah-mal.

Thank you! I shall be sure to pronounce it correctly now
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:46:32 +0100, "Ophelia" ku>
wrote:

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>
>"notbob" > wrote in message
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>> On 2013-04-15, notbob > wrote:
>>
>>>> Ok I found it, but does anyone here do all that?
>>
>> Oh, I guess I didn't really address your question.
>>
>> No. Most ppl, including Mexicans, jes buy canned hominy. Juanita's
>> sells hominy in gallon cans. My late step-mom, who was Mexican, would
>> go down to the local taqueria and buy a bag of fresh nixtamal. I
>> tried that at one of our local Mex mkts, which DID make their own
>> fresh tortillas, and asked for some fresh nixtamal, but the workers
>> looked at me like I was from outer space and feigned ignorance. Yer
>> basic "go away stupid gringo" act. So, it's make yer own or buy
>> canned.
>
>Thanks, Bob. I very much doubt I would find anyone here who makes such
>things At least I don't know any Mexicans. I do like to know about
>various foods and you have satisfied my curiousity
>
>
>> If you can find someone who makes it and is willing to sell it to you,
>> go for it. It really is great in homemade pozole. As an FYI, it's
>> pronounced NEEZ-tah-mal.
>
>Thank you! I shall be sure to pronounce it correctly now
>--
You did check Wiki and find out that without the process a lot of
nutrients in the corn are not available for human consumption?
Janet US

On 4/15/2013 7:11 AM, notbob wrote:

> No. Most ppl, including Mexicans, jes buy canned hominy. Juanita's
> sells hominy in gallon cans. My late step-mom, who was Mexican, would
> go down to the local taqueria and buy a bag of fresh nixtamal. I
> tried that at one of our local Mex mkts, which DID make their own
> fresh tortillas, and asked for some fresh nixtamal, but the workers
> looked at me like I was from outer space and feigned ignorance. Yer
> basic "go away stupid gringo" act. So, it's make yer own or buy
> canned.
>
> If you can find someone who makes it and is willing to sell it to you,
> go for it. It really is great in homemade pozole. As an FYI, it's
> pronounced NEEZ-tah-mal.
>
> nb


We live in a small town, 7K people, and we are lucky enough to have 2
Mexican meat markets/grocery store/taqueria. The small store sells
nixtamal, but I am not sure about the larger one. We only shopped in
the larger store once, then we went back to the smaller store. The
people are friendly, and we love the meat, they sell. They also sell
hominy in huge cans. I bought one, but I doubt I will do that again,
that is a lot of hominy.

Becca

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:38:15 +0100, "Ophelia" ku>
wrote:

>I came across this the other day. "Ideally you need to make masa harina for
>tortillas - so you have to get into nixtamalisation before grinding"
>
>Anyone know what it means?
>
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Janet US

"Feranija" > wrote in message
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> On 2013-04-15, Ophelia > wrote:
>> I came across this the other day. "Ideally you need to make masa harina
>> for
>> tortillas - so you have to get into nixtamalisation before grinding"
>>
>> Anyone know what it means?
>
>
> According to Wikipedia, it comes from Nahuatl language and their
> word nextli for ashes, and tamalli for unformed corn dough, tamal.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization#Etymology

Thank you

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