Many of us think that when the corn is off the cob- the cob is no longer of any use. This is why we usually just throw it away and forget about it. However, there are actually some real uses for those corn cobs and they are pretty amazing!
Some Things You Can Do With Empty Corn Cobs Are:
1. Corn stock.
Toss cobs in pot, cover with water, add a few big pinches of salt, simmer an hour. The stock will be sweet, fragrant, golden in hue.2. Corn cob jelly.
Boil cobs with water for 10 minutes, strain, add pectin and you've got a traditional, old-school farm stand-style jelly that's sweet and honey-like.3. Milk them.
Use back of a knife to scrape naked cobs, remove starchy, milky liquid, called corn milk. Catch liquid in bowl, add to corn soup to thicken it.4. Enhance poaching liquid.
Toss naked cobs in a zip-top bag, stash in freezer. Add cob to poaching liquid the next time you're at it. It will infuse its flavor into meat.5. Smoke meat.
The naked cobs are placed over the charcoal and give meat a sweet but mellow smoky flavor.
Finished!
Now that you know what you can do with corn cobs you may never throw them away ever again.
Let Us Know How It Worked Out For You!
Article Source: The Kitchn
Photo Source: Christine Gallary
Sounds interesting
IF you have a wood burning stove for Heat, Keep them & put them it to help Heat & use less wood. Js
Hmmm.
horses get them
You can make corn cob jelly and it is delicious.
i loved doing this at the farm with all the girls
Michael S. King…grandma King use to make corn cob jelly~
Make poor mans honey
Used mine for Cream Corn. Cream Style Corn.
I’ve made corn cob jelly, it is really good.
My goats do too
Corn cob jelly sounds interesting.
I wanna make the jelly!!!!!!
I would never think of some of these ideas
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Sounds like some good ideas! I will have to try them!
My grandmother used to make corn cob jelly, was good on homemade biscuits.
Here U go Teresa Killion now U know what to do with all those cobs
Nichia we have to try this.
We throw ours into the Koi pond. This Koi love them. Like Watermelon rinds too!
I have heard back in the day of out houses ~ they used them to wipe !!
my pigs get mine
Helen Brooks McDonald do you have a recipe for corn cob Jelly that you can send me?
I did have, but haven’t used it in a while. If I find it, I will send it to you.
have in young days dont work uncles laugh that we did it was their joke on us
What is poor mans honey? I am intrigued 🙂
Boil corn cobs add sugar makes a thin syrup
Do you know what corn cobs were used for for years ago in rural Kentucky?
lol
I remember Mom making corn cob jelly!!
Awesome, tasty
Lora Loy Quickle just posted her batch of cob jelly.
Yeah, I want to eat something made from several peoples’ slobbers. No thanks. Not appealing at all.
give them to your Koi fish, they love them, watermelon too.
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I feed mine to the squirrels 🙂
Do you have a recipe for corncob jelly? My great grandmother used to make it
Thx
Empty from cutting off or from chewing off?
A friend has her husband dry them, then put them on a stick for backscatchers.
Renee Kontra
Lol threw them in woods for chickens!
I use to make corn cob jelly.