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Booshway
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Has anyone used dried shelled corn sold as deer corn to make parched corn for the trail?
 
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I have used Great River Organic Milling Corn

I've also tried "feed corn" for cattle. While it parched up great..., it has too much cellulous for a human, and has a rather harsh, laxative effect. So you have to find out if the dried shelled corn that you are proposing is "feed corn" or "human"corn.

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Try nixtamalizing the feed corn before you parch it. That removes the pericarp(hull) making it more nutritionally available. Plus, it's period. Native Americans have been doing this for as long as anyone can determine. Corn that has been nixtamalized is also known as hominy.


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nixtamalized


Now there is a new word for my limited vocabulary! Smiler

Thanks Boartooth
 
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Lol, you're welcome...Took me a while to learn how to pronounce it.....


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Corn that has been nixtamalized is also known as hominy.


Well when it has been turned into Hominy, there is no reason to parch it. One then boils it for about an hour to eat it.

Part of parched corn as a long distance trail food is the expansion one gets from the fiber in the stomach, which is removed by turning it into Hominy. Wink

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There's a lot of confusion re: corn. Most of which is generated by European colonists disregarding the advice given them by the natives. It's difficult to sift the hard info from the supposition. One thing that is well established is that a diet consisting of high quantities of non-nixtamalized corn can result in a disease known as Pelagra. this is how our corn(maise) got a reputation in Europe as being fit only for animal feed.See, the Europeans thought that nixtamalization was only to soften the corn so it could be ground with the natives' primitive grinding equipment. They didn't (for the most part) pay attention to what the natives told them about how necessary it was to nixtamalize corn.


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Also, Deer corn is the lowest grade of corn you will see for sale. It's best to stick with Feed grade or better for this use.


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There's a lot of confusion re: corn. Most of which is generated by European colonists disregarding the advice given them by the natives. It's difficult to sift the hard info from the supposition. One thing that is well established is that a diet consisting of high quantities of non-nixtamalized corn can result in a disease known as Pelagra. this is how our corn(maise) got a reputation in Europe as being fit only for animal feed.See, the Europeans thought that nixtamalization was only to soften the corn so it could be ground with the natives' primitive grinding equipment. They didn't (for the most part) pay attention to what the natives told them about how necessary it was to nixtamalize corn.



Actually what we today call nixtamalization was indeed merely a method to remove the hulls from the corn. The fact that niacin (vitamin B3) is present in hominy wasn't discovered until after 1937. Because Pellagra is not from eating "high quantities of non-nixtamalized corn"..., it's from a diet difficient in B3 and tryptophan. So one could eat only ground corn meal, and be fine, so long as another source for B3 and tryptophan was present.

Which is what caused the confusion. Natives DID eat parched corn..., which was not nixtamalized. They used it as a trail-food, not as a staple food in settlements, and they had other foods along with the corn in the settlements. European colonists also ate a lot of corn meal, not nixtamalized, and had no ill effects. In fact it wasn't until the 20th century that the idea that it and other "diseases" were not such, but were nutritional problems.

Other such "diseases" are scurvy, and beriberi.



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