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Hominy Gems

Name: Hominy Gems
Ingredients: ¼ cup hominy; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 cup scalded milk; 1 cup corn meal; 3 tablespoons sugar; 3 tablespoons butter; 2 eggs; 3 teaspoons baking powder

A historic early American dish of hominy, scalded milk, corn meal, sugar and butter. Adapted from Hominy Gems, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896).

Adapted from Hominy Gems, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's Ye Old American Recipe Book collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/ye-old-american/recipes/hominy-gems.md.

The dish

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Hominy Gems

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Produce

1 cupcorn meal

Dairy & Eggs

1 cupscalded milk
3 tbspbutter
2eggs

Pantry / Durable

¼ cuphominy
3 tbspsugarChecked by You
3 tspbaking powderChecked by You

Spices & Seasoning

½ tspsaltChecked by You

Cooking Instructions

Add hominy mixed with salt to boiling water and let stand until hominy absorbs water
Add scalded milk to corn meal, then add sugar and butter
Combine mixtures, cool slightly, add yolks of eggs beaten until thick, and whites of eggs beaten until stiff
Sift in baking powder and beat thoroughly
Bake in hot buttered gem pans

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)