Doing Corn

Today we did Dad's corn. When Benji and I woke up at 10, Dad and Chris were in the garden finishing up the picking.








Next comes shucking.








Part of the corn





Ice ready for cooling



Staging area






Then blanching - 3 minutes in boiling water.  I had 3 pots of boiling water going all at once




Cooling








Cutting











I love to eat those milky planks of cold corn









Cobs afterwards



Cutters, Benji keeping the floor cleaned up of any stray kernels



Chris packing the corn into quart bags


Charlie was our bag labeler, stager, stower into freezer, fetch and carry guy.

I was so hot that sweat was dripping into my eyes to I went and dug out a babushka.  Actually, an apron of Mom's I tied onto my head, to become a "towel head" as Charlie satirically dubbed me.



32 quarts of corn in all.  We were finished by about 1:30.




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