Green Corn Recipe ingredients

To prepare this Green Corn Recipe, first the principal compound in green corn is sugar, and great pains should be taken to preserve this. If the sugar be lost, the corn is tasteless. Probably there is no vegetable that requires such careful handling as green corn. It should go from the parent stalk to the saucepan or fire. Left husked or unhusked in a hot kitchen an hour or two and the sweetness has departed.