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Double A
08-03-2009, 08:03 PM
Bought 20 dozen ears of fresh picked sweet corn and 80 pounds of ice yesterday morning. Shucked 240 ears of corn (sort of a Zen experience like mowing the lawn). Only found one worm - in the next to the last ear. Blanched it, chilled it in ice water and cut it off the cob - using the angel food cake pan method. We now have 80 bags of sweet corn in the freezer. Will taste mighty good with a roast, and some mashed potatoes and gravy this winter.

Double A
Altjaeger
08-03-2009, 09:21 PM
Bought 20 dozen ears of fresh picked sweet corn and 80 pounds of ice yesterday morning. Shucked 240 ears of corn (sort of a Zen experience like mowing the lawn). Only found one worm - in the next to the last ear. Blanched it, chilled it in ice water and cut it off the cob - using the angel food cake pan method. We now have 80 bags of sweet corn in the freezer. Will taste mighty good with a roast, and some mashed potatoes and gravy this winter.

Double A

Back as a kid we went into my grandparent's field corn patch that also the family corn on the cob source doing what you described a number of times. The rest was harvested dry and put away for the cattle and chickens.

But when I read your post I smiled at another memory. The one time I pulled KP in an old fashion company mess I did not peel potatoes. Instead 3 of us shucked and silked 6 bushels of corn. You just took me back 36 years.:)

Thanks and hope that corn is as delicious as you make it sound.
Alan R McDaniel Jr
08-03-2009, 09:57 PM
We always did it as described. Several years ago we were up in Clinton, Missouri visiting in-laws right at roasting ear time. We got a bunch of sweet corn and the guy we bought it from told us that we could just freeze it in the shuck. We knew better but decided to give it a try. . . . . . . . . . . . We were right.

Alan
dave-t.
08-04-2009, 11:13 AM
When you cook it, pue about half a tea spoon of sugar in the pot. It brings that sweet corn flavor out, just like you're eating it fresh off the cobb.

Alan, I also have inlaws in Clinton, and spend quite a bit of time down there. Our corn turned out better than theirs this year. Just ask the coons. :D
SeniorCoot
08-05-2009, 08:47 PM
Ok I'll bite what is the Angel food pan methiod?? we just pick it- blanch it -cut from cob -and freeze it in zip locks-last long time as is great all winter