Hominy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 oz. lye
6 qt. cold water
5 qt. shelled corn
5 Tbsp. salt

Preparation

Dissolve the lye in the cold water.
Stir in the shelled corn and let stand for 15 hours.
Drain off the lye water and put the corn in a sack.
Rub and wash it in the sack through running water. After the hulls are off the corn, take it out of the sack and cook for 3 or 4 hours or until tender.
Change the water 2 or 3 times while it is cooking.