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Originally Posted by b54red
In our family we have always used mostly sweet corn for creamed corn. My uncle who used to plow his corn with a mule would plant between a half acre and an acre every year of sweet corn for creaming and the rest was planted in field corn for drying and feeding his animals. My mother would take all us kids to visit when the corn was ready and for a couple of days we would all shuck corn and cream it with a corn grater and my aunt and mother would blanch it, bag it and freeze it. When we got done we would take back a large ice chest full of bags of creamed corn.
I loved visiting my aunt and uncles farm except for corn creaming time. 
Bill |
My job was to pick and shuck the corn and my mother and aunt would scrap the corn with a knife and corn grater. It was a lot of hard work for the two of them, but cream corned, butter beans and peas were a major part of our diet growing up in the 60's and 70's.