This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Steep a quart of white corn in weak lye for two days, wash in two waters and boil it about 4 hours or until tender. The lye from the leach of wood ashes is the kind generally used, but a weak solution of concentrated lye will answer and if that is not available mix a handful of baking soda in water enough to cover the corn twice over and let steep in that. Wash well before cooking, eat with salt and milk.
Cost - the same as mush and milk, rom 1 to 3 cents each person.
10 crackers and a pint bowl of milk. Usual charge 10 cents.
Same as the preceding.
 
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