[yorkiemom]

I have a lot of hard corn and enough pickling lime to process it in addition to the other grains mentioned. Is there a problem with this as it was not mentioned?

Can you use corn without the lime? Just wondering, as I'd rather just grind it for cornmeal.

I don't know why it's not mentioned. I was thinking that raising corn would be the best idea - you get a summer veggie and a dried winter carbohydrate out of it.

[Starstruck]

I think you can eat and can sweet corn but hard or dent corn which you can store in buckets requires lime to release the nutrients. You could probably make cornmeal but I don’t think it provides what you need.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Pellagra is not a fun thing to have. The lime releases the B3. You can still grind the corn after soaking. You can grind it wet for immediate use or dry it and grind for future use.

[Ellendra]

Dent corn doesn’t make the best cornmeal if you grind it straight-up. There’s a lot of undigestables in it.

Making it into hominy helps, and also makes some of the nutrients more accessable.

Starting this summer I’m going to start experimenting with flour corns, which have a lower percentage of “undigestable” than dent corns, but take less processing than hominy. There’s a pretty wide range of corns out there, each with their own flavor and cooking method.