This is the recipe that I use to put up 50 or 60 quarts of corn in the freezer each year ... and it's never enough!!

Barb's Freezer Corn

8 cups corn (cut off the cob, then measured) 1 cup water 1 tablespoon sugar Up to 1 teaspoon salt 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter

Combine all ingredients in a large pan, bring to a boil, stirring to prevent sticking and scorching. Boil 5 minutes. Cool ( I dump in roaster pans sitting in ice water and stir). Pack in freezer cartons or bags, freeze.

Now, in return, I need a good spagetti sauce to cook up and can. No meat, I'll add it when I open the jar. I like chunks of tomato, onion, green and red pepper and garlic for sure. I have a Victorio strainer, so no problems getting tomatoes to juice or sauce stage. Many thanks!!

-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), July 07, 2000

Answers

Polly, there is a lady at our church who makes the best corn I have ever tasted. WONDERFUL!!! But I can't get it from her. Apparently it's a secret or some such thing. It is sort of like a cream style but thicker and WAY better than what ya get in a can.It's sweet and buttery and WONDERFUL! Did I say it's WONDERFUL.Oh I do hope your's is like that.My corn is ready soon.

-- Bonnie (josabo1@juno.com), July 08, 2000.

Bonnie, that favorite tasting corn of yours might be made with Philly creme cheese and butter in it. I don't remember the portions of each, but you can experiment for that. It sure is mighty good.

-- Notforprint (Not@thekeyboard.com), July 08, 2000.

Thanks for the recipe. It's great! The whole family just loved it. I've never frozen corn before. I was surprised at how many ears it took to make very much. I don't have enough room to grow corn so I bought about 40 ears. It made about 4 qt. bags. I can't imagine how many ears it takes to 50 qts. like you do. I'll just keep buying it as I can and hope my family doesn't eat it as fast as I can make it!

-- Denise (jphammock@msn.com), July 14, 2000.

You sure are right about it taking a lot of ears to make a little corn!! Today - 136 ears yielded 12 quarts. We plant 8 rows of early corn and 8 rows of mid-season - rows are about 200 or so feet long. We just started picking the early season corn. So far, I have 20 quarts put up, and I have only picked three rows - and I've given away a lot of what I picked. We are the only ones in our extended family that live in the country - so everyone counts on us for sweet corn during the season! I won't let them eat any of the freezer corn until after all of the roastin' ears are gone!! Hope your family enjoys it as much as we do!

(PS - I used to put this up in pint containers....'til I married my hubby - he can eat a whole pint by himself!)

-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), July 15, 2000.