I was interested in the corn cakes described in this reference, so I decided to try a version. It's not something I would try on a trek, if I had corn on the cob there I would just boil or roast it on a stick. I just wondered what it might be like.
_Indian Captivity: A true narrative of the capture of Rev. O. M. Spencer by the Indians, in the neighborhood of Cincinnati_ , in 1792
"For bread, besides that prepared in the ordinary way from corn meal, we had some made of the green corn, cut from the cob and pounded in a mortar until it was brought to the consistency of thick cream, then being salted and poured into a sort of mould of an oblong form, more than half the length and twice the thickness of a man’s hand, made of corn leaves, and baked in the ashes, was very palatable."
I used regular sweet corn, pureed it coarsely and wrapped it in corn shucks as a mold. To thicken it, I added some of my rockahominy, parched and ground dried corn. I just baked it in a toaster oven for 15 minutes, and it worked pretty well, good caramelized corn flavor. They used maple syrup, so I drizzled a bit over it and declared the test a success.
Spence
_Indian Captivity: A true narrative of the capture of Rev. O. M. Spencer by the Indians, in the neighborhood of Cincinnati_ , in 1792
"For bread, besides that prepared in the ordinary way from corn meal, we had some made of the green corn, cut from the cob and pounded in a mortar until it was brought to the consistency of thick cream, then being salted and poured into a sort of mould of an oblong form, more than half the length and twice the thickness of a man’s hand, made of corn leaves, and baked in the ashes, was very palatable."
I used regular sweet corn, pureed it coarsely and wrapped it in corn shucks as a mold. To thicken it, I added some of my rockahominy, parched and ground dried corn. I just baked it in a toaster oven for 15 minutes, and it worked pretty well, good caramelized corn flavor. They used maple syrup, so I drizzled a bit over it and declared the test a success.
Spence
