Corn Muffins 5 Ways (from Backyard Corn)

(from last winter) What do you do when you grow five different varieties of colorful heirloom corn in the back yard?

Grind them into cornmeal and make individual corn muffins, of course:

Some day I’ll type up some notes on the corn growing itself– it was very fulfilling and an interesting challenge (especially the hand-pollinating due to the small area under cultivation and desire to keep separate varieties from cross-pollinating).

We couldn’t really taste a difference between muffins made with different corn (as expected, I suppose), though in a blind taste test H and I did both pick out the muffin made with Oaxacan Green corn as our favorite and a bit “nuttier” than the others… and we tasted a big difference between our freshly-ground dried corn (any variety) and cornmeal-from-a-box.

Tags: cornbread, cornmeal muffins, dent corn, flint corn, flour corn, gardening, painted mountain