Definition of Hominy grits

1. Noun. Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States.

Exact synonyms: Grits
Generic synonyms: Hot Cereal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hominy Grits

hominids
hominies
hominin
hominine
hominins
hominization
hominizations
hominize
hominized
hominizes
hominizing
hominoid
hominoids
hominum
hominy
hominy grits (current term)
homish
hommage
homme
hommes
hommock
hommocks
hommocky
hommos
hommoses
hommus
homo milk
homo oeconomicus
homo politicus

Literary usage of Hominy grits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"hominy grits and bran, although of greater value than corn meal, were given a differential of only 3 cents above rates on corn. Minimum carload weight on ..."

2. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical by Mary Foote Henderson (1889)
"Ingredients: One quart of milk, one cupful of hominy grits, two eggs, and salt. When the milk is salted and boiling, stir in the hominy grits, ..."

3. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical by Mary Foote Henderson (1876)
"Ingredients: One quart of milk, one cupful of hominy grits, two eggs, and salt. When the milk is salted and boiling, stir in the hominy grits, ..."

4. The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering by Jessup Whitehead (1903)
"There arc three or four different grades as to size, from the coarse hominy, as large as peas down to the white meal known as hominy grits or samp. ..."

5. Lessons in Cookery by Frances Elizabeth Stewart (1919)
"Coarse and fine hominy grits are very nearly pure starch; hominy, or "hulled corn," is the whole kernel, including the germ, and because of the germ has a ..."

6. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English: Or, Medicine by Ray Vaughn Pierce (1918)
"Light and not too fresh wheaten and Graham bread, toast, zwieback; plain unsweetened biscuit, as oatmeal, Graham, soda, water, etc.; hominy grits, ..."

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