Sunday, September 27, 2015

Corn

September 22, 2015

The month of August involved a lot of corn. I was able to learn how to process fresh corn to make delicious bollos; a boiled corn meal of a sorts. 
 
After the fresh corn is harvested and cleaned, the kernels are separated from the cob.
 
The kernels are then ground into a corn meal, for lack of a better word.
 


Salt is added and the mixture is spooned into the reserved husks.


A natural fiber harvested from the trunk of a specific tree is used to tie around the husk to prevent the corn mixture from spilling out.
 
After being boiled for about an hour, a delicious corn patty-like bollo is promptly devoured.


 
At the end of the month I went to the farm of this same family to help harvest dry corn; used for soups, seeds for planting the new harvest, and chicken feed.