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.
