Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.
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If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.