On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, jake wrote:

> Elaine Parrish wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, jake wrote:
> > If you have butter or margarine or oil, you don't need crisco - especially
> > at those prices.
> >
> > Crisco is a product of advertising, not of necessity.
> >
> > Elaine, too
> >
> My Crisco search ends here! I'll use marg;/butter instead. For frying, I
> can just use oil.
>
> I will let you know how the hominy turns out. I got it from an "ethnic"
> store that sells Surinamese/Hindustani brands. I suspect it is highly
> specific for that culture, I've never seen in any other shop before.
> Suriname has jungles, maybe that means they packaged it in such a way
> that it was light to transport there. Cans would be much heavier. I'm
> just guessing, though.
>
> The brand is called AJS and the writing on the package is in Spanish
> and in English. Plus Dutch. I couldn't find any info on it through
> Google. This isn't unusual for Surinamese products - it's a poor country
> with a population of 350,000.
>

Hominy is virtually unknown in the US outside of the Southern US. I don't
think we know about it because of a big influx of people that are
Surinamese/ Hindustani. <g> I figured someone else in the world had to
make it, but this is the first I've heard of it. Get some recipes from
them, too, because we buy it canned and use it as a side dish just warmed
with butter or bacon fat for flavoring. I don't know that I have ever
heard of a hominy casserole of any kind (We do have grits casseroles, but
not whole kernel hominy casseroles).

I'll be anixous to hear how your experimenting goes. Keep me posted.

Elaine, too