Dried-Corn Puddings

9 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 cups dried sweet corn (available by mail order from John Cope's Food Products, Inc., P.O.Box 419, Rheems, PA 17570-0419, Tel. 717-367-5142, and at some specialty foods shops)
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 4 1/2 teaspoons sugar
  • 3 1/2 cups milk, scalded
  • 1 tablespoon double-acting baking powder
  • 4 large eggs, beaten lightly
  • 1 cup thinly sliced scallion greens
  • 2/3 cup thawed frozen corn kernels, patted dry
  • rosemary sprigs for garnish

Directions

  1. 1
    In a blender grind the dried corn until it resembles coarse meal.
  2. 2
    In a bowl whisk together the ground corn, the salt, the sugar, and the milk and let the mixture stand at room temperature for 1 hour.
  3. 3
    Whisk in the baking powder, the eggs, the scallion greens, the corn kernels, and pepper to taste, pour the batter into sixteen 1/2-cup metal charlotte molds coated with non-stick spray, and bake the puddings on a baking sheet in the middle of a preheated 375F.
  4. 4
    oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the centers comes out clean.
  5. 5
    (Alternatively, the pudding may be baked in a buttered 1 1/2-quart shallow baking dish.)
  6. 6
    Let the puddings cool for 5 minutes and run a thin knife around the side of each pudding.
  7. 7
    Invert the puddings, 1 at a time, onto a spatula, invert them onto a platter, and garnish them with the rosemary.

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