Homemade Hominy - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 gal. Hickory King corn
1 gal. water
1 heaping tsp. Mary War lye

Preparation

Wash and pick out bad grains.
Add to 1 gallon water in black pot
with
1
heaping
teaspoon
Mary
War lye.
Stir to dissolve. Add corn to mixture.
Boil until outer skin of corn comes loose. Stir
until all the skin is off, staying with it and stirring constantly
as to not stay in lye bath too long. Remove
from fire
when
corn skins slip off between fingers. Drain
lye water off; pour more water into pot.
Drain again 2 or
3
times.
Now wash in pan or sink, washing several times, stirring
with
wooden spoon.
Keep
hands
out
(wear rubber gloves).
Now
with gloves off, run water over corn until you feel
no
slick
feeling to grains of corn.
Put corn into pot and
cook
5
to
6 hours, adding water as needed.
Do not put corn in aluminum.