field corn for dinner
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Topic: field corn for dinner
Posted By: Don(MO)
Subject: field corn for dinner
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 6:32am
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Dad picked one ear field corn two days ago for dinner and man was it good!
It was to long to fit in the pot so he broke it in two, you can guess the one I had. lol
We try to get one or two helpings of field corn to eat per year. I have planted sweet corn but the coons get it before I do and I have more then a nuff field corn to feed both of us. lol
Don
  ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
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Posted By: Jeff Z. NY
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 6:35am
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Field corn is very good when you pick it at the right time when the kernals are still filled with milk.
Mant years ago my Dad would walk across the road and check the corn for milk. On the right day we had it with supper. Very Good!!!! |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 6:48am
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Field corn is very good. Roll it in butter and add some salt. YUM! ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Adam Stratton
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 7:53am
| I dont know how you managed it this year Don! Down here, you would have to pick a field of corn to get enough for a meal. There is a lot of corn being cut for silage down here, and a lot more that you really hate to look at when you drive by. We hadnt been away from home for a while, and were really down about how our corn looked, but I had some business to run my 100 miles or so 2 different directions from home, and I didnt see any corn that I would be any prouder of. Hopefully we can get some rain so we can have some beans this year.. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 7:59am
| Hmmmmmmmmmm, lot of local rumors as to what that hybred corn will do to you :-) We always ate it as kids. Maybe that is the cause of all of my issues, to include antique tractors. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 8:42am
| Worked in Venezuela for a while and they would take field corn (not sweet corn available) in the milky stage and put it thru a meat grinder, add a little sugar and make pancakes. Those were the best with a little cheese, scrumpdili-isious.... |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 8:42am
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IT'S started to RAIN at my place!!!
I needed it very bad too, have not seen rain for a month now; this just made my corn crop for me THANK GOD!
You know what to do when comes to planting a crop but it takes the man up stairs to make it grow! ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 9:03am
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Most of the folks who like Field Corn around here don't eat it off the cob like you do sweetcorn. They cut uncooked field corn kernals of the cob and scrape the cob into a cast iron skillit of hot bacon grease. They say it's messy but very good fried this way.
I have tried to enjoy field corn on the cob and can't yike it that way. I enjoy sweet corn on the cob any way you can fix it. Raw, roasted in the shuck, microwaved in the shuck or shucked and shucked and boiled.
Why is this posted up here in Farm Equiment?
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Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 5:02pm
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Field corn has a corn flavor that's been bred out of sweet corn. You do have to catch it just right and the old cook books recommend you put the pot on to boil before you go to the field to pick the corn, that you shuck the corn on the way back, and hit the boiling water as soon as you can to preserve the sweet. Gerald J. |
Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 5:22pm
| You are right Gerald, if it sits for an hour, thats 1 hour to long !!!! |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 6:26pm
Don't you see the wd45 in the picture next to the corn?!?!
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Ken in Texas wrote:Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 7:51pm
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That is one BEAUTIFUL!!! field of corn. Look how tall.
Wish we had some of that her in Maryland. We are not getting a lot of rain here.
I bet it tasted good.
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2011 at 8:51pm
Because Farm Equipment is used to plant and harvest most of that magnificent-looking field of corn.... ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |