In a message dated 1/12/2014, lynrbai...@desupernet.net writes: .....sweet corn is best eaten the day it is picked, as the sugars start to turn to starch once it is picked. ......It is a simple food, best lightly boiled and lots of butter on top, eaten with the fingers or corn holders as it is hot.
--------------------------------------------------- This has prompted me to wonder if there is any way to use corn silk in the making of lace? Would make interesting table favors at the 2015 Iowa convention! Another idea has to do with two 2 1/2" tall corn husk dolls I bought from a Czech dealer in the sales room at the 2008 Groninger Netherlands OIDFA Congress These are a banquet table favor possibility. They are glued to a 2" diameter round wood base cut from a tree. The one in my lace tools étagère is holding a wood "lace pillow" cut from a 3/8" diameter round twig, with a strip of paper glued around the middle with a drawn lace pattern. Attached on top of that are 4 miniature wooden bobbins wound with aqua colored thread. The doll in my embroidery tools étagère is holding a draped 1 1/2" square of fabric on which a row of cross stitches has been added in blue thread. Maybe the National Czech and Slovak Museum staff knows more about them, and how they are made. A article about this museum's re-opening after recovery from destruction by flood appeared in OIDFA's Bulletin 4, 2012. Lyn reminded me that my grandparents returned to farming because of severe food shortages during WWII (America's young farmers had gone to war in Europe and the Pacific). Before he went to pick corn, she set a pot of water on the old black wood-burning stove to boil. They rushed to husk the corn and put it in boiling water. We did not have butter, but it was still a feast at a time when people all over the world were hungry. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
