Heart to Hearth Cookery

Lenape White Flour Corn-Green Stage

This is a picture of the Lenape white flour corn in my garden in the green stage.  Today I was digging up individual plants to transport to a Green Corn Festival this weekend.  Corn in the green stage is camouflaged among the tall plants (most of mine are over twelve feet high)!  If you look closely you can see two ears about mid-picture.  I will be boiling, roasting, and preparing green corn leaf bread.  If you have never eaten flour corn in the green stage, it is quite different than our sweet corn that we also eat in the green stage.  Sweet corn is sweet and watery,  flour corn is good but starchy and milky.  I am looking forward to the welcomed taste!