Post by blackcrowheart on Jan 21, 2008 11:30:26 GMT -5
Leaf Bread Tamales
This is prepared from green corn. The kernels are cut or scraped from the cob
and beaten to a milky paste in a mortar. The corn used for leaf cake tamales
should be too hard for green corn good for boiling and eating on the cob.
The paste is patted into shape and laid in a strip on one end of a broad corn
leaf, the free half being doubled over the paste Other leaves are folded over
the first, the ends all projecting uniformaly from one end for typing. This
was then tied three times laterally and once transversely and dropped into
boiling water. When cooked- cooking requires about 45 minutes- the wrappings are
removed and the cake is eaten with sunflower or bear oil, though in these
modern days bacon grease or butter are more in vogue. Oftentimes cooked beans
are mixed with the mass before wrapping in the leaves. These impart their
flavor and give variety. Leaf cakes may be dried for winter's use if no beans
have been used with the corn. In wrapping the leaf bread a bulbous shaped bundle
is made resembling a large braid of hair doubled and tied. (P)
This is prepared from green corn. The kernels are cut or scraped from the cob
and beaten to a milky paste in a mortar. The corn used for leaf cake tamales
should be too hard for green corn good for boiling and eating on the cob.
The paste is patted into shape and laid in a strip on one end of a broad corn
leaf, the free half being doubled over the paste Other leaves are folded over
the first, the ends all projecting uniformaly from one end for typing. This
was then tied three times laterally and once transversely and dropped into
boiling water. When cooked- cooking requires about 45 minutes- the wrappings are
removed and the cake is eaten with sunflower or bear oil, though in these
modern days bacon grease or butter are more in vogue. Oftentimes cooked beans
are mixed with the mass before wrapping in the leaves. These impart their
flavor and give variety. Leaf cakes may be dried for winter's use if no beans
have been used with the corn. In wrapping the leaf bread a bulbous shaped bundle
is made resembling a large braid of hair doubled and tied. (P)