It turns out that during the dust bowl one of the only things that the farmers could use to make jelly was corn cobs and most weren't lucky enough to have even that. The recipe that was used to make our jelly was a family recipe from that time period.
When I tasted the jelly the first thing that I thought was that it tasted like honey. The other more interesting flavor that I tasted is hard to describe. Corn harvest has a very distinct smell to it; it's kind of like dusty corn and straw. The smell of harvest is what the jelly tasted like. If I had to choose between corn cob jelly and another more common type of jelly like strawberry, I think I'd choose the strawberry every time. If I was a hungry farmer in the thirties, I think that corn cob jelly would have tasted like best thing I'd ever had.
I'm not going to act like I'm a cook, I'm not. For the people that are out there who are interested I found this recipe on Food.com. If anyone tries to make it let me know what you think!
-Farm Foodie Ryan
Whaaaaaaaaa??? It sounds interesting. Totally not paleo though. :)
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. The recipe looks like corn cobs are being used to flavor the water used to make jelly, similar to how chicken bones flavor soup broth. The recipe still calls for normal sugar and pectin to make the jelly sweet and thick. I wonder if the corn kernels could be used to make the jelly sweet, similar to how high fructose corn syrup is made...or maybe that takes a huge processing plant. I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for this now so I can try it too!
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