6 SWEET CORN – 6-112 - HARVESTING and KITCHEN

 

 
ORGANIC FARMING COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY   
6 SWEET CORN – 6-112 - HARVESTING and KITCHEN  

 
HARVESTING
Each plant will produce 1 pr 2 cops. Test for ripeness when the silk has turns chocolate brown. Pull back pat of the sheath and squeeze a couple of grains between thumbnail and fingernail. If a watery liquid squirts out then the cop is unripe. If the liquid is creamy than the cop is right for picking but if the liquid is thick and doughy you have waited too long.
Carefully twist off the ripe cop from the stem. Do this just before it is required for cooking.
 
KITCHEN
Country sayings emphasise the need to cook sweet corn as soon as possible after picking. According to the Americans “walk slowly to pick it, run back to the kitchen and cook it”.
Nearer home, the advice is to “take a pan with boiling water with you when you pick the cops. “.
Freshness, then, is all-important for top favour and so are two other tips - never add salt to the water and never boil for more as a few minutes if the cobs have been freshly picked. To prepare the cob, strip out the outer leaves cut off the stalk, and pull off the silks.
 
 
 
Text from The Vegetable & Herb  Expert D.D.G. Hessayon

 
 
6 MAZAO TAMU – 6-112 - KUVUNA na JIKO
KOZI YA KILIMO HAI KILIMO-UCHUMI
 
KUVUNA
Kila mmea utatoa 1 pr 2 askari. Jaribu kuiva wakati hariri ina rangi ya chokoleti. Vuta nyuma papa la ala na ufinyue nafaka kadhaa kati ya ukucha na ukucha. Ikiwa kioevu cha maji kinatoka, basi askari huyo hajaiva. Ikiwa kioevu ni krimu kuliko askari ni sahihi kuokota lakini ikiwa kioevu ni kinene na cha unga umesubiri kwa muda mrefu sana.
Pindua kwa uangalifu polisi aliyeiva kutoka kwenye shina. Fanya hili kabla tu ya kuhitajika kwa kupikia.
 
JIKO
Maneno ya nchi yanasisitiza hitaji la kupika mahindi tamu haraka iwezekanavyo baada ya kuokota. Kulingana na Waamerika "tembea polepole ili kuichukua, kukimbia nyuma jikoni na kupika".
Karibu na nyumbani, ushauri ni “kuchukua sufuria yenye maji yanayochemka unapochukua askari. “.
Usafi, basi, ni muhimu sana kwa upendeleo wa hali ya juu na vile vile vidokezo vingine viwili - usiongeze chumvi kwenye maji na usichemke kwa dakika chache ikiwa mabuzi yamechujwa. Ili kuandaa kisu, ng'oa majani ya nje kata bua, na uvute hariri.