{"id":3294,"date":"2013-06-20T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2013-06-20T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T07:00:32","slug":"q-and-a-growing-corn-for-cornmeal-and-layering-jars-in-canner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/06\/20\/q-and-a-growing-corn-for-cornmeal-and-layering-jars-in-canner\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: growing corn for cornmeal and layering jars in canner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Growing corn for cornmeal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am growing dent corn to make corn meal. I am not sure when to harvest and how to prepare the corn for grinding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Jones<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Cullowhee, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leave the ears on the stalks until the husks are golden and rustle like paper. The corn itself will be hard and dented. At this point, pick the ears and move them in to an area protected against birds and rodents. Be sure to give them air to further dry, if necessary. Then shell the ears by either using a hand-cranked sheller or by hand. I use my thumb to work the kernels off the cob or you can rub two cobs together over a bucket. If you have trouble with maize moths or pantry moths, freeze your shelled corn for a week. Then you can grind your corn for cornmeal. Whole cornmeal contains the germ so will go rancid faster than store bought cornmeal does so either freeze the cornmeal or else grind a few pounds at a time so you&#8217;ll use it before it goes rancid. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Layering jars in canner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Can you water bath two layers of jars with a rack in between as you do in pressure canning? I was thinking jam in half-pint jars. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Donna Herlihy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wentworth, New Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can but you don&#8217;t often have that many jars of jam at a single time. You shouldn&#8217;t double or triple your batches of jam because often it will not set. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing corn for cornmeal I am growing dent corn to make corn meal. I am not sure when to harvest and how to prepare the corn for grinding. Daniel Jones Cullowhee, North Carolina Leave the ears on the stalks until the husks are golden and rustle like paper. The corn itself will be hard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}