Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday An easy way for you to make yummy hominy POLLYS POINTERS DEAR POLLY Do you know to cook corn 10 make hominy My mother used to buy it canned in the permarket but I haven seen it foi a long time I used to love it hot th butter and salt ME DEAR M Hominy is dried corn whose skin is removed by sot ing in lime water Here the e dure as detailed in Whole Foods lor the Whole Family La League International The ingredients are dry field ctrn not sweet corn cold water and I lime Be sure to use hydraied NOT quicklime or I they are dangerous Check health food stores and feed stores or dry corn I have seen a brand of lime sold with pickle ng plies during canning season over cups 3 pounds dry Crn with quarts of cold water in a lai enameled or stainless steel pot don 1 use aluminum Add cup lime 3 ounces and bring to a boil Boil covered for about 1 hour or until the skins peel off Remove from heat and pour some cold water into the pot to hasten cooling When cool enough to handle swish the corn around and rub with fingers The skins will come ff in the water Rinse the corn under cold water until the water runs most clear You now have hominy This can be eaten as a vegetable as describe ground to use as fresh the corn flour used for making tortillas or dried thtn cricked to use as Fresh hominy can frozen I remember a teacher m ikinghom my in one of grade school classes so the process cant be too difficult once you locate the right ingredients Good luck POLLY Brighten up fimily dinners with new and different vegetable side dish and main dishes with the easy reci pes in Pollys newsletter Vegetable DEAR Can thai are designed for the ve bt ed in a conventional oven And hon can a recipe for microwave be converted to conventional cook DEAR I A Some microwave is indeed safe for cooking Obviously tempered jass is fine to use in both types of ovens Even some of plas cs can withstand convention it bak ng temperatures However tl v of really knowing if such a dish in your regular oven is to check the manufacturers labeling If It a not labeled as safe for conventional Ovens don t attempt to use plastic in the regular oven If you no longer have the pack aging and the dish itself is not la you might try find identic 1 items in the stores so you can read the manufacturer recommendations on the labels or boxes The easiest way to convert wae recipe to conventional cooking is to use a similar type of recipe dc signed for conventional cooking POLLY RECIPE OF THE WEEK Start a holiday dinner with a really special soup This deluxe cream of mushroom soup is enriched by two types of cream It s not for dieters not every day anyway but it is the epitome of culinary luxury Saute pound fresh chopped mush rooms and Vt cup chopped onion unsaltcd butter until the onion is tender and most of the liquid given off by the mushrooms has orated Puree the mushroom and on ion mixture in a food processor blender or food mill Return to the cooking pot and add cups beef broth 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