corn curd

[Beverly Flanigan]

Sounds like corn mush to me.

At 04:16 PM 9/24/2006, you wrote:
>Googling "corn curd" yields (among refs to its inclusion in various mixed
>dishes) the following:
>"Scrape corn from the cobs and boil in salted water till tender. Cook rice
>in salted water till half done and remove from fire. Now add curd and lemon
>juice "............
>Perhaps it is "curd" rather than simply cut corn, because scraping  pulps
>the kernels to some degree, often dislodging the germ and mashing the
>starchy component. Just a WAG.
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