Homestyle Creamed Corn

[kirra]

Homestyle Creamed Corn

Ingredients:

20 ears Yellow corn (field corn)
1/4 cup Evaporated milk (or more)
1/3 cup Butter
Salt and pepper (to taste)

Preparation:

First off, you better put on an apron 'cause it'll get messy! Put a big bowl in your sink and a grater inside your bowl. Take your fresh ears of shucked corn and gently grate the corn on the smallest holes of your grater. Keep turnin' the corn - you don't want to get the hull part in the bowl. So, once you've "popped" all the kernels by turning and grating, then gently take the cob and scrape what you missed with a dull knife. Squeeze the remaining juice from the cob (like you were milking a cow) into the bowl and throw away the cob. Now, twenty ears'll only make about a pint of cream-style corn.

Put that corn into a pot, add the evaporated milk, salt and pepper to taste and let it start to bubble. While whisking it, add butter and cook for about 10 minutes. It should be thick and "plop" on the plate when served (at least that's how I like mine!). Every time I serve this up, people take one bite and their eyes get real big and they say, "Wow! What is this!?? It's delicious!"

Note: Instead of evaporated milk, you can substitute water to make it more "ploppy."