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What does hominy mean?

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Noun
  1. A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
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Two yearly crops of early corn were eaten as they ripened, and a harvest of late corn was dried and stored for winter use as hominy.
Oddly, his brother invites him to stay at the farm, but we can tell that he's there for more than hominy grits and southern fried chicken.
Puchero, a meat stew, is made of boiled hominy and chopped parsley, pepper, squash, carrots or tomatoes.
We're not sure if Martin had anything to do with it, but we did find traces of hominy grits mixed in with the samples.
Try eggs, cheese or ham in hominy porridge, or use cooked kernels in Mexican dishes such as chilli con carne and pozole.
This rich, nutty concoction was added to broth to thicken it, and to corn cakes and hominy as a seasoning.

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