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Corn on the Cob

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I love fresh sweet yellow and peaches and cream corn.
One of the best and tasty ways to cook it is on an open fire or BBQ in a pinch.
You soak the husked corn in water for a few hours (some add sugar to the water, we don't) then cook them for an hour or so until the outer husk is black and burnt.
The corn browns and cooks in its own sugars and juices and tastes amazing.

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I eat my fill this time of year, every year. Farmers around here always plant a few acres of sweet corn for their neighbors. My freezer will soon have enough to last me till spring/early summer. (A couple dozen ears)
I also get my fill of real tomatoes. Not that crap you get at MalWart. These are sweet, juicy and have flavor. Too bad they won't freeze as whole.
 
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Judas Priest said:
Corn on the cob, aka Zuckermais/Maiskolben here in Germany is somewhat a rarity. I was born and raised in corn country; Illinois, and I love COTC. I bought some today and it was fantastic!

Man, I could eat 10 ears of this stuff!
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I grew up in the western part of Ohio, I know what you mean :D
GF couldn’t get enough first time she had it after eating Va/Nc sweet corn her whole life.
 
Orwell84 said:
I love fresh sweet yellow and peaches and cream corn.
One of the best and tasty ways to cook it is on an open fire or BBQ in a pinch.
You soak the husked corn in water for a few hours (some add sugar to the water, we don't) then cook them for an hour or so until the outer husk is black and burnt.
The corn browns and cooks in its own sugars and juices and tastes amazing.

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This, only with brine.
 
The deer, here, don't mess with my corn too much. It's the raccoons! They will pick every ear and take a few bites and go get more. The only way I can have a successful crop is to run two electric wires. One at 4 ft and another about 4 inches high. This year we had constant rain for about a month and a half. So, most of my garden drowned. So, the few corn stalks that survived weren't worth the effort of driving the fenceposts and putting up my hot wore. So, consequently, I didn't get a single ear. But, usually, I plant 12 rows @ 75 ft long. I freeze a lot so we can enjoy all winter. Not this year, though.
 
I raised some Bodacious this year. The first planting was close to picking time and some raccoons got in it and tore a lot of it up. I have an electric woven fence so I put it around it and no more raccoon damage. I took the battery off so that I could recharge it. Well, I went out to the garden yesterday and the raccoons got in my second planting of corn. They lost their fear of the electric fence really fast. I hooked the battery back up and didn't see any damage today. I hope they stay away until I get it all picked.

I think I might try some Silver Queen next year.
 
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I planted Bodacious last year. My ears were not as large as the Peaches and Cream. So, that is what I planted this year. So, I am going to try it again next year. My fence charger runs on 4 D-Cell batteries. It gets turned on when the corn is tassling and lasts till fall. I never would have believed it.
 
Flashing on an old M.A.S.H episode where Father Mulcahey grew some corn, gave it to Igor the camp cook for dinner ... and Igor creamed it ... dOH!

Store bought on the cob is good, but fresh out of the patch is EXCELLENT!
 
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