The girls and I along with Addy's kids went out to see sister Terry yesterday. She had asked us out to help and to learn how to make tomalitos (mayan food).
We all shucked the corn.......we've done that before except this corn has about 10 times the amount of husk as corn back home. Next, we all cut the corn off the cob which we've done that before too......just way out of practice.
On to the hand grinder where we took turns cranking the grinder handle. How hard is it to grind fresh, young corn? Well, apparently it isn't easy as we kept trading off (could it be that we are soft from easier living). The farm has no electricity so all the work is done by hand.
We also added onion and green pepper which we also put through the grinder. Whew!!! By then its like 1pm and we started at 9am.
Sister Terry added seasonings to the mix and melted margerine and some canned milk (no refrigerator there) gave it a stir and announced it was ready to fill the husks back up.
So we gathered around the table and Terry showed us how to fold the corn husks and how to fill them and place them into a huge pot that had husks lying in the bottom and water.
I'm sure that we were way more messy than she would be but it was fun to do it. Very hard work and you might get it for supper most likely the next day. We filled two layers into the pot and covered the top with more corn husks to help keep the steam in. The pot was carried out to the firehearth as they call it here and it cooked for 90 minutes.
They were soooooo good and worth the hard work!
We finally were finished and had our prize tomalitos to take home and left the farm at 4:45pm. An all day affair and I hope to do it again sometime.
We have to pass through two cattle gates going in and out of the farm. For some reason going out the kids couldn't get one of them to shut. How many kids does it take to shut the gate?
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