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Definition of Hominy
1. Noun. Hulled corn with the bran and germ removed.
Definition of Hominy
1. n. Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.
Definition of Hominy
1. Noun. (context: Western Hemisphere) A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hominy
1. hulled, dried corn [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hominy
Literary usage of Hominy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
""Our custom was, when we received paper on the Henderson hominy Mills, to telephone
to Mr. Heilbronner, and he would come up and accept them; ..."
2. Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant by Elizabeth H. Putnam (1869)
"TO BOIL PINE hominy. Have your hominy picked over, to be sure that it is ...
Have ready a saucepan of boiling water; take a handful of hominy in your left ..."
3. Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant by E. Putnam (1869)
"Take two teacups of white hominy; put it to soak in cold water over night; ...
TO BOIL PINE hominy. Have your hominy picked over, to be sure that it is ..."
4. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"CORN BY-PRODUCTS The three most commonly used corn by-products for pig-feeding
are hominy feed, corn feed meal, and corn germ meal. In addition, gluten feed ..."
5. Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen by B. C. Howard, Jane Grant Gilmore Howard, James B. Herndon, Herndon/Vehling Collection (1881)
"One quart of hominy, three pints of water. "When it boils well, ... hominy.
Throw it into a pot of water, before breakfast, and boil it a whole day, slowly. ..."
6. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"The making of hominy became a great industry, and it was manufactured and sold all
... The hominy was boiled In water in the same proportions as grits, but, ..."
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