When I was a kid my father gave me part of the garden to grow popcorn. I was growing regular yellow popcorn and the small strawberry variety. These two cross pollinated and I ended up with long ears of red popcorn and small strawberry sized yellow popcorn. I also had popcorn the way it was supposed to grow. But now I'm nearly sixty years old and still remember when that happened. Fun stuff for the kids in the house to learn about pollination.
When you brought out the coffee grinder, I was reminded of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long Winter". She writes that when the town ran out of flour and they could get only seed wheat, Laura's Ma cleaned out the family's little hand-cranked coffee mill, and they used it to grind the wheat to make bread. That was a large part of their survival that winter.
I have a Victoria grain milk that I got from the homebrew supply store. It's one of the hand crank types, but there is nearly always some way to take the handles off of them and use a power drill to grind much faster and easier.
I grow corn for fun and to use in homemade beer. I also make other things with it (such as posole, hominy, and tortillas. You state that corn has high calories. Be careful if you make corn a large proportion of your food. When corn was introduced to Europe, many people grew and ate it. They suffered from malnutrition. Corn has to be nixtamalized to make the nutrition available. If you make tortillas or hominy with it, you are OK. A diet of nixtamalized corn, rice and pinto beans can help you survive for decades...
My dad used to plant a lot of corns before and yes it stays longer than any crops does.i remember we grind the corn and we remove the chaff and then we took the finest part of it and then cook it its so good.we used the chaff to feed our chickens and horse.we used to have a shed of.just harvested corn and stock it for years ...
You seem like the right guy to ask. When we see his finished product, the meal, does it contain the chaff? He speaks of grain corn, but says not to use sweet corn, why? What's the difference?
Nice video with lots of good information. I do take exception to one thing, however. A lot of people think sweet corn isn't any good for grinding, but that's a myth. It can be dried and ground just like field corn, but you have to adjust your recipes for the higher sugar content and lower starch content of sweet corn varieties.
So I guess pro level would be to collect _all_ the tassels from all the plants, and so you control what pollinates what, so you can get seed for your true to type strains, and find what to cross pollinate to make the seeds for the hybrids.
Also maybe there's a big book of corn hybrids to tell you what true to type varieties to cross to get what decent hybrids. Or is it all proprietary? My uncle was a plant breeder working for the department of ag breeding oats. He continued to perfect existing and create new varieties to meet various demands. For example he created a variety perfect for making granola bars but useless for anything else. I called it the plastic wonder oat cause someone clueless or unscrupulous was selling them to make for rolled oats and occasionally you'd get a bag of them at the grocery store and they just wouldn't soften one bit unless literally boiled in syrup, then they'd be perfect, just as specified 😹 But anyway being government work, *all* the seeds for *all* the varieties were available for a nominal fee to cover cost of just physically growing and transporting the seed. Research and seed banking having already being paid for by tax dollars. And literally this was a work that stretched back more than two hundred years to the first experimental farm in the first European colony, and this public service was always the arrangement, because that was the specific purpose of the experimental farm and all subsequent developments, including the department of ag: that the colony should not fail but produce agricultural abundance and increase the wealth of the kingdom and of her subjects. Then some traitorous arseclown of a politician sold the lot to a foreign concern, they didn't even bother replanting, the seeds rotted and *all* varieties were lost for all time. How is that not high treason? How are the perpetrators not richly deserving of a long walk followed by a short drop? I think the last two and a half years in particular have given the answer: lately it doesn't matter how heinous an act, if "the government" perpetrated it, it's not "a crime". In other words government currently has zero accountability to the governed. Far less even than the British Empire at the peak of Her reach and power. Because that institution created, furthered preserved and maintained this service to all free crown subjects whereas now a faceless bureaucrat can dispense with the priceless treasure of ages for simple career advancement and short term (a single year!) paper expediency. And there is not a single thing you could possibly do to stop it.
Hey Megan. I bought the corn here www.quailseeds.com/store/p111/Cascade_Ruby-Gold_Flint_Corn.html#/ an I bought the mill at www.lehmans.com/category/grain-mills# but they don't have the one we have anymore.
Industrial farming waters the corn too much, to make it grow faster and get more harvesting. The down side is, that the roots of the plants don't grow deep and you need to keep the upper soil wet. And in the upper soil, much more water is lost through evaporation.
Hopi corn has much more protein than our corn as does many dent corn varieties. Peruvian beans are higher in protein than regular beans. This is how ancient civilizations thrived.
Came here to see how to grind corn. Fell asleep after all the superfluous science lesson that lasted half the video. Stopped watching before u even got to the grinding part.
When I was a kid my father gave me part of the garden to grow popcorn. I was growing regular yellow popcorn and the small strawberry variety. These two cross pollinated and I ended up with long ears of red popcorn and small strawberry sized yellow popcorn. I also had popcorn the way it was supposed to grow. But now I'm nearly sixty years old and still remember when that happened. Fun stuff for the kids in the house to learn about pollination.
When you brought out the coffee grinder, I was reminded of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long Winter". She writes that when the town ran out of flour and they could get only seed wheat, Laura's Ma cleaned out the family's little hand-cranked coffee mill, and they used it to grind the wheat to make bread. That was a large part of their survival that winter.
I have a Victoria grain milk that I got from the homebrew supply store. It's one of the hand crank types, but there is nearly always some way to take the handles off of them and use a power drill to grind much faster and easier.
I grow corn for fun and to use in homemade beer. I also make other things with it (such as posole, hominy, and tortillas. You state that corn has high calories. Be careful if you make corn a large proportion of your food. When corn was introduced to Europe, many people grew and ate it. They suffered from malnutrition. Corn has to be nixtamalized to make the nutrition available. If you make tortillas or hominy with it, you are OK. A diet of nixtamalized corn, rice and pinto beans can help you survive for decades...
My dad used to plant a lot of corns before and yes it stays longer than any crops does.i remember we grind the corn and we remove the chaff and then we took the finest part of it and then cook it its so good.we used the chaff to feed our chickens and horse.we used to have a shed of.just harvested corn and stock it for years ...
You seem like the right guy to ask. When we see his finished product, the meal, does it contain the chaff? He speaks of grain corn, but says not to use sweet corn, why? What's the difference?
Learning and you are so helpful. Thank you.
Nice video with lots of good information. I do take exception to one thing, however. A lot of people think sweet corn isn't any good for grinding, but that's a myth. It can be dried and ground just like field corn, but you have to adjust your recipes for the higher sugar content and lower starch content of sweet corn varieties.
Love your videos and your perspectives.
My brother in law used to buy cornmeal from an animal feed store and make cornmeal cake by using a fine grind. He tried all sorts of things.
So I guess pro level would be to collect _all_ the tassels from all the plants, and so you control what pollinates what, so you can get seed for your true to type strains, and find what to cross pollinate to make the seeds for the hybrids.
I would love the cornbread recipe. Is there a way to get it please.
Also maybe there's a big book of corn hybrids to tell you what true to type varieties to cross to get what decent hybrids. Or is it all proprietary?
My uncle was a plant breeder working for the department of ag breeding oats.
He continued to perfect existing and create new varieties to meet various demands.
For example he created a variety perfect for making granola bars but useless for anything else.
I called it the plastic wonder oat cause someone clueless or unscrupulous was selling them to make for rolled oats and occasionally you'd get a bag of them at the grocery store and they just wouldn't soften one bit unless literally boiled in syrup, then they'd be perfect, just as specified 😹
But anyway being government work, *all* the seeds for *all* the varieties were available for a nominal fee to cover cost of just physically growing and transporting the seed. Research and seed banking having already being paid for by tax dollars.
And literally this was a work that stretched back more than two hundred years to the first experimental farm in the first European colony, and this public service was always the arrangement, because that was the specific purpose of the experimental farm and all subsequent developments, including the department of ag: that the colony should not fail but produce agricultural abundance and increase the wealth of the kingdom and of her subjects.
Then some traitorous arseclown of a politician sold the lot to a foreign concern, they didn't even bother replanting, the seeds rotted and *all* varieties were lost for all time.
How is that not high treason? How are the perpetrators not richly deserving of a long walk followed by a short drop?
I think the last two and a half years in particular have given the answer: lately it doesn't matter how heinous an act, if "the government" perpetrated it, it's not "a crime".
In other words government currently has zero accountability to the governed.
Far less even than the British Empire at the peak of Her reach and power. Because that institution created, furthered preserved and maintained this service to all free crown subjects whereas now a faceless bureaucrat can dispense with the priceless treasure of ages for simple career advancement and short term (a single year!) paper expediency. And there is not a single thing you could possibly do to stop it.
5:33 start grinding dude
I really enjoy watching your videos and I'd love to have your cornbread recipe if you're open to sharing. :) God bless!
Here is the link to the website that my wife got the no yeast/thin cornbread recipe from. www.kristinaskitchen.org/thin-cornbread/
@@HealthAndHomestead Thanks so much!
That’s got to be the healthiest way to live and eat 👌
Absolutely.
Soak your corn in wood ashes to get Hominy for tortillas etc! Or you can make parch corn
Would have been very appropriate to show us the grind of all the grinds spoken of.
I wanted an electric grinder, but the thought of no power and the price of an electric made a manual one more reliable.
Not sure if in the last 2 years someone asked, but you aren't using nixtamalization?
Recommend some varieties of grain corn for zone 5 experienced gardener, but never grain corn.
Have you thought about publishing a cookbook in the future?
Yes, we have thought about it. We hopefully will.
What is the reason for not using sweet corn to grind for the cornmeal or other products?
Vitamix !
Please share your wife's cornbread recipe. Thanks and God bless!
Here is the link to the website that my wife got the no yeast/thin cornbread recipe from. @t
@@HealthAndHomestead Can't see it
Where do you buy your corn seed for making cornmeal? Enjoying your videos!
Hey Megan. I bought the corn here www.quailseeds.com/store/p111/Cascade_Ruby-Gold_Flint_Corn.html#/ an I bought the mill at www.lehmans.com/category/grain-mills# but they don't have the one we have anymore.
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What is the model grinder you are using?
Question: I believe corn plants are drought sensitive. With climate change threatening us would not sorghum be a better option?
Industrial farming waters the corn too much, to make it grow faster and get more harvesting. The down side is, that the roots of the plants don't grow deep and you need to keep the upper soil wet. And in the upper soil, much more water is lost through evaporation.
Can we have a link to the grinder? On Amazon, most of these (including Victoria brand) have a lot of bad reviews for metal filings in the flour.
Oh, I saw they don’t sell it anymore. If anyone has a link to another one as good, please let us know.
You can also make cakes with corn meal
Great point.
Die you ever try to grind dry beans? What is your thought?
Hopi corn has much more protein than our corn as does many dent corn varieties. Peruvian beans are higher in protein than regular beans. This is how ancient civilizations thrived.
You are missing the tortillas every time you mention corn products ! More nutritious (includes B3) because of the nixtamalisation process.
May I ask about how much you paid for the Lehman mill?
I don't remember. Sorry. I think it might have been given to us.
@@HealthAndHomestead thank you. What a great gift!
Came here to see how to grind corn. Fell asleep after all the superfluous science lesson that lasted half the video. Stopped watching before u even got to the grinding part.
You grind corn by talking too much , our corn is ground by your teeth thanks