[Iron Munro]

Bulk Corn For Corn Meal, Corn Bread?

Does anyone here have any experience buying and storing bulk dried corn and grinding it up for corn meal to make corn bread or other corn products?

I would like to learn what to do and how to do it.
Things like:
Where to find the bulk corn?
What kind to buy?
How long can it be stored?
How to use it once it is ground up, etc.

I find a lot of info on long term storage for wheat but haven’t found much on corn.

Any advice or info shared will be appreciated.

[JRandomFreeper]

Big question.

I don't buy bulk, but deer corn at the local feed store/Lowes works.

I grow my own dent corn.

It stores for years if you keep the bugs out of it and keep it dry. I mix a bit of diatomatious earth with the corn (and wheat and barley) to keep the bugs out.

I generally use a Corona grain mill to grind maize. I usually sift it and grind it twice to get it down to correct size for the cornbread I make.

My recipe for cornbread is:

3 tablespoons of dried egg,
one cup of wheat flour, 
one cup of cornmeal, 
one teaspoon of risings (baking powder), 
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, 
1 tablespoon of sugar,
1/4 cup of powdered milk, 
1/3 cup of melted fat of any kind.

Add water to make a cake batter consistancy mass. Bake at 400F in a preheated cast iron skillet.

/johnny

[mouser]

here you go

http://www.lehmans.com/store/Kitchen___Grain_and_Grain_Mills___Quaker_City_Grain_Mill___quakermill#11712951171300

lehmans is a neat place for non power stuff

if granny used it they have it

[goosie]

I do buy corn in the 5 gallon buckets. The last I bought was from Emergency Essentials. I actually buy popcorn and have double duty. I grind it for cornbread and now I occasionally make corn mush as a cereal and then chill it for later for fried mush. I saw that on youtube.