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Wednesday, August 13

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If you follow my blog, you will remember from three weeks ago that my niece, Karen’s family, friends, and neighbors processed more than 300 dozen ears of corn. Most was given as a gift to those in our church family and neighborhood who had recently gone through tragedy, health issues, or anything that got our niece Karen’s attention. This is her summer mission project.

Three weeks later (yesterday) we did it all over again.

This is what the garage looked like when I arrived at 9 am. Cerwin came an hour later after taking his brother Elvin out for breakfast.

It was about 12:30 pm when we had the 300-plus dozen ears of corn husked, cooked, and cooled and began cutting it from the cob.

This time the finished bags of corn were going to Larry and Karen’s family and a few friends who purchased theirs. This is when I get our corn for the next year’s needs. I freeze ours in 2-cup packs.

Two of my sister’s youngest grandchildren (Jared and Chelsey’s – Jayna and Isaac) were faithful in doing their job of stirring the corn cobs after it was cooked and placed in a few water baths. When the cobs were cool, they were placed in a large colander and brought to our table.

The benefactors of the discarded corn husks and cobs were the farm cattle.

If you missed my first post – about three weeks ago – you can find in on this link. There are many more details of the process we use. Sweet Corn Project at the Homestead – My Journey – by Doris High