This recipe originally calls for corn cooked in wood ashes (lime water) to remove the hulls—then ground into flour. Nowadays you can buy masa harina—the same thing. Results are more like a dumpling than bread.
Ingredients:
3 cups masa harina
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup bacon grease
1 cup cooked beans (pinto beans are traditional—others will work)
2 cups water the beans cooked in (bean pot liquor)
Dried cornhusks (or hickory leaves)
Mix masa harina and bacon grease together first. Then add other ingredients. Form into patties and wrap in cornhusks. Steam covered for 45 minutes/when cornhusk pulls away cleanly.
Can also be boiled. Minus the cornhusks, it can be baked or fried.
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