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removed by washing or winnowing;, is called " grits," ''■ or 

 " hominy." t This, when boiled, is eaten with sugar and 

 milk, or with oil, salt, and pepper. Maize is the chief food 

 grain of Tropical America, and is also used to an immense 

 extent in Tropical Africa, especially on the West Coast ; 

 likewise in India. 



In Venezuela the grains are soaked in water, their outer 

 shells or hulls removed by pounding in wooden mortars, 

 and, being subsequently winnowed, the pulpy mass (without 

 the chaff) is then shaped into little round cakes, which are 

 baked on hot iron plates called " budare ; " these little 

 breads are called " arcpas." 



The white varieties are the best for human food. 



" Succotash " is the succulent ears of maize when nearly 

 full grown, cut ofP, and cooked with Lima Beans. Maize 

 flour alone is not adapted to make bread, on account of 

 its deficiency in gluten. 



Used alone, like oatmeal, it is made into a cake, and this, 

 when roasted, is in South America called " tortilla ; " and 

 in the form of porridge with milk is called " corn lob " 

 in British Honduras. 



Hominy makes a good pudding with the usual ingredients 

 — sugar, eggs, grated cocoanut, cinnamon, vanilla, or nut- 

 meg, and coco-nut milk. Cold boiled hominy can be fried 

 and eaten with peas, beans, or groundnuts. 



* Grits are very finely pulverized, and have no hull, 

 t Hominy has no hull, and is coarsely broken up. 



