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Robert J. Moyle letters, 1862-1906
10_1864-01-25 Page 02 Letter 02
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sent with the butter I have full of hominy which we eat three times a day it is splendid My bunk mate and me made it I will tell you how it is made and you ought to try it well in the first place you take ashes put in kettle and boil it strong pour the lye off into another kettle put your shelled corn in and Boil until the skin peels of the grains and it is soft and swolen then wash it with clean water and put it on again in clean well water and boil Change the soiled water three times untill the lye is all out whewn it is fit for use and will keep a week in cold weather fry it in Cream and Butter We make a greavy of flour and water and grease and fry it in that and it eats well we draw flour now and we make pan cakes raise them with lye they are pretty good though some times we
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sent with the butter I have full of hominy which we eat three times a day it is splendid My bunk mate and me made it I will tell you how it is made and you ought to try it well in the first place you take ashes put in kettle and boil it strong pour the lye off into another kettle put your shelled corn in and Boil until the skin peels of the grains and it is soft and swolen then wash it with clean water and put it on again in clean well water and boil Change the soiled water three times untill the lye is all out whewn it is fit for use and will keep a week in cold weather fry it in Cream and Butter We make a greavy of flour and water and grease and fry it in that and it eats well we draw flour now and we make pan cakes raise them with lye they are pretty good though some times we
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