Show sweet corn Is ambition of every home gardener sweet corn Is the ambition of every home gardener only home grown corn Is really sweet corn from the market while excellent as food has lost the sugar content before it can come to the table fresh picked corn alone retains the sugary quality which makes it the most popular summer vegetable removed from the stalk a chemical change starts which turns the sugar into starch and the corn has a corn taste but not a sweet one if it remains four hours before going into the kettle for scientists tell us that this changing of sugar into starch Is accomplished complis hed bed in about that time that Is why a suspicion so often arises that sweet corn sold in the market Is field corn or as 93 it Is often called horse borse corns corn 1 it was sweet corn once time has stolen the sweetness |