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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: dawnfuller on September 30, 2010, 23:11

Title: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: dawnfuller on September 30, 2010, 23:11

Anyone any idea on how to use surplus cobs ??

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: Yorkie on September 30, 2010, 23:13

This is the recipes section of the site - sweetcorn page - albeit not specifically cobs:
http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/category/vegetable-recipes/sweet-corn-recipes/

And you can freeze them whole.

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: TheSpartacat on October 01, 2010, 00:16

Oh you lucky lucky lucky....

I would take my camping cooker down to the plot, cook em up, and pig out until i can't be moved!!!!
 :)

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: Sue33 on October 01, 2010, 11:10

lucky you!  :D  i've simply blanched mine and then frozen them in packs of two, they freeze really well  :)

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: joyfull on October 01, 2010, 11:19

feed them to my chickens as I hate the stuff  :lol:

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: Spana on October 01, 2010, 12:55

Quote from: joyfull on October 01, 2010, 11:19

feed them to my chickens as I hate the stuff  :lol:

NO :ohmy:       :lol: :lol: :lol:

I blanch then cut the kernels off, bag up and freeze.  Also make sweetcorn relish which is lovely with cold meat and jacket tates.

But my chocks always get the middle bit after I've cut the kernels off :)

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: joyfull on October 01, 2010, 13:04

I tried growing some last year just for the chickens but they demolished the plants and ate the kernals before I got to harvesting them  :lol:

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: mumofstig on October 01, 2010, 13:05

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I blanch then cut the kernels off, bag up and freeze.

good idea........for the last few years I've blanched them and frozen on the cob, but now I've got the lottie, the freezer is full............and freezing kernals would take up less room :)

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: Yorkie on October 01, 2010, 18:37

Might take up less room, but half the fun is eating them off the cob, getting butter dripping down your chin  8) ::) :lol:

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: V8ACCobra on October 02, 2010, 21:03

You could always make tons of cornflakes  :wacko:

Title: Re: glut of sweetcorn!!!
Post by: themoog on October 03, 2010, 11:34

I've cut mine into mini cobs, blanched and frozen, using Val's method.