I prefer the less sweet corns, too. I grew up eating Hickory Cane field corn. You had to get it early and cook it pretty soon or it was darn chewy, but that corn flavor is what I think of as "corn", more so than the super sweet varieties of today. I can recall lots of pots of my mother's cream style corn made with Hickory Cane. She didn't add any sugar, or cream for that matter. It was basically just corn cut off the cob, with the scrapings from the cobs and a chunk of butter. It was good even when the kernels were a bit tough.

Chuck

My corn this year was yellow 'Legend'. Its got a really good taste and some stalks has two ears. I just picked the last 6 and thats all for this year. Its not a hybrid or any of the SH2 or SE types which are just too sweet and lack decent flavor. I blanch right after picking and cut the kernals ofl the cobs to freeze.

My 'addiction' was so fierce that tonight I tried same recipe with some Silver Queen - yuck! Not the same. Next year I am going to find someplace to grow lots of field corn.

Chuck, you are right about it being chewy but what a tasty chew!! My Mom did the same thing - cut the kernels off and then "milked" the cob. Hickory Cane will get a try if I can find seed.

ksrogers, where did you find your Legend seed?

DL

I grow only yellow corn now and find the bicolor types just too watery, even though mnay like them juicy. I prefer my corn to be a litle more mature too. I bought Legend seeds from, Park Seeds. Also more corn choices:

http://www.parkseed.com/gardening/store/AdvancedSearch?storeId=10101&SearchText=commonname%2FCorn&CustSearchText=null&pageNumber=1&alphaPage=null&searchSorter=AlphaSorter&searchFilter=Avail&previous.x=40&previous.y=20

They also offer some colorful corn. I even recall 'shoepeg' corn too.

Here is a link that might be useful: Legend corn seed source

My Dad used to get what he called cow corn from the local dairy farm. It was yellow and had a big corn flavor, large kernels and was chewy but delicious. Dad would wrap it in aluminum foil and toss it on a camp fire or the grill. Cow corn also makes a marvelous corn chowder. I'll bet "Cow" corn was a type of dent corn.

The closest I've come for flavor and texture is Hopi Blue corn picked just as soon as the kernels plump up.

I grew cow corn here by mistake. It was the result of mixing SE and SH2 types, which should never be planted with non hybrid corns. All of it was short stubby cobs and big mealy kernals. Nice flavor, but really chewy, and hardly worth canning or freezing. I stay with just a single type or one that can give me two ears per stalk. This year, I had a couple with 3 ears in the same stalk, but one was a bit stunted. Stil a better yield than a single cob per plant. The bi color types to me are not as tasty as all yellow.