Replies to post #203658 on DD Support Board and Research Team

[shajandr]

Yes, of course. I am married to a squaw - which sometimes can be its own Trail of Tears.

She is nott Seminole, just a tad Fox-Sauk(Sac). And we buy $39.99/ hand-harvested wild rice from a reservation as a result. And now - also hand-picked and shelled heritage white corn from a different res starting this year - I do nott recall the price, butt it is absurdly, ridiculously expensive!!! They also sell bags of hardwood ash with which to boil the white corn to remove the hard kernel hulls (this white corn is also called flint corn because of its hard hull, BTW) and recover the hominy innards to use in soups and stews.

Who would have thought I would have to pay for campfire ashes?

The hardwood ash serves as lye and, when mixed with the flint corn in a boiling pot for an hour, softens the hulls so they slough off easily.

These heritage corns are the same genetic stock as those tribes grew hunnerts of years ago and barely resemble ears of modern corn.