Pickled Corn Question/Help?!?!

[ranchhand]

Oh my oh my.

I don't even like the drooling smiley, but this sure calls for it!

 

[Schultz]

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Actually the crock will hold 24 ears, my great-grannt brought it over from Ireland about 1904ish. I bought some on sale corn from the grocery for my first attempt since I got it 12 ears for a dollar!

 

[Schultz]

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My granny said it's probably a southern/Irish thing, she was born and raised in West Virginia, we eat a lot of southern combined with Irish!

 

[breezy]

That is so cool!

 

[Schultz]

Well. I hope that everyone who tries it will keep me posted on their results. It sounds really good, I have never tried it myself. My great-granny died when she was 100 and I was in my early 20's so I wasn't yet in the mindset to ask about family recipes and such. Now that I am almost 40 and know the value of family heritage, I smack myself for being young and selfish. My great grandparents were married 77 years, I hope I can be half the person they were!

 

[addiedunn]

So, Shultzy, how did she prepare it once it was pickled? Cut it off the cob and put it in a salad? Or just eat it as is? Hot or cold? We pickle over here but usually just eggs, bologna, peppers, etc. I'm from West Virginia, though, and it was quite common for my neighbors to have something pickling in the crock under the stairs.
I know chow chow usually had corn in it but it was already off the cob and mixed with other things, too.

 

[jbowen9]

that usually depends on taste here as the longer it sets the more sour it gets i think we usually average 2 weeks here but i think it also depends on where you have it the humidity,and temp

 

[Schultz]

Well, from what I gather, my granny likes it straight out of the crock with a little rinse and she eats it straight off the cob. My mom likes it cut off the cob or in salads, great granny would cut it off the cob and serve it chilled at "hen" gatherings. (Her lady friends from church would come over to gossip and she would serve it) I have it sitting in my kitchen where it stays pretty cool.

Where are you from in WV addiedunn? Most of my family still lives there. Some are in Charleston and Glasgow. I spent many summers swimming in the Kanawha River as a kid, I miss it there!

 

[addiedunn]

That is so crazy! I never swam in the Kanawha...my Mother would have killed me. lol. But it was right in our back yard. We lived in Dunbar when I was very small and our backyard sloped down to the river. When I was in High School, we lived in Huntington. I went to Wheeling Jesuit University, which was Wheeling College way back then, and I went to Marshall for a few semesters, also.
That's funny that you swam in the Kanawha...does your skin glow green? We lived so close to Nitro and the chemical plants that were right on the river. We lived about a block from the Dunbar toll bridge that connects with S. Charleston.

 

[Schultz]

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Haha small world! Dunbar is a great little place. They also had the closest funeral home to Glasgow so when my great grandparents passed, their services were held in Dunbar. (There's also a fun little bar on the corner) As for swimming in the river, nope, I'm still normal...kinda

We just weren't allowed to eat anything out of it. What's really crazy is that my aunt and I (she is only 2 years older than I) would visit for 2 weeks out of the summer and swim in that river all day for 2 solid weeks. A few times we would catch the side of a coal bardge and hold on until we got to Charleston so we could go to the mall and catch another back. It was fun as a kid but I would kill my kid if she ever did that!! My great grandparents lived across the street from the river so we had easy access too. Oh, and that creepy Shilian (sp?) bridge. I am so glad that thing was finally torn down, that was a death trap! Ah, the good ol' days in WV.