Mom and Dad have a grand set up for preparing sweet corn for freezing. Mom has it all stored in memory from previous years, along with suggestions on how to improve it this year.
Dad usually follows instruction pretty well but on occasion disagrees. (Now you know where I learned the fine art of finger pointing. I got it from both of them.)
Saturday we had a multi-generational gathering to process 25 dozen ears of corn. (Dad didn't know it but we had a birthday lunch prepared for him, too.) They cranked out the awning and set up the fan. Husks went right onto the truck bed for easy unloading later.
Dad divided the corn into boxes so we knew whose corn was being processed. I thought the corn was very nice. We purchased it from the Ebys on Feaster Road.
After husking comes the final silk removal. This is Dad's drill strapped to a bench with a brush in place of a drill bit. It's noisy. I wore my ear plugs.
Dave lent us his turkey cooker. It has a basket for easy ear removal. We cooked 2 dozen ears at a time.
Then onto the two coolers set up with ice water.
Then the cutting, bagging and freezing happen.
At noon we had a lunch of hot dogs, barbeque, sweet corn (of course), watermelon, lemonade, birthday cake and ice cream. Afterward was time for story telling
and cat naps.
Kaden rescued the few worms we found and loaded them onto his truck for a ride around the patio. Madison loved playing with the garden hose.
I would love to spend a day just like this. :) Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteDo you cut them off the cob or just cut them into smaller chunks? On the west coast we're spoiled, we just buy a few at a time and eat them that way during the summer. Never thinking to process them for winter eating.
ReplyDeleteMmmmmm...fresh corn! There's nothing like it! I am known for saying, "THIS is the BEST I have EVER had", every year, hands down, at the first corn of the season! One of our local farmers even has a drive-thru corn stand, no need to get out of your car!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you've got the corn freezing down to a fine art! We've also had a great growing season so far this year, our wheat is being cut in the next few days.