malt corn
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malt corn noun Sprouted corn that is ground and added to other ingredients to produce mash. [DARE labels this usage “especially South Midland”]
1939 Hall Coll They’d take a bushel, about a bushel of corn to the sixty-gallon barrel, and a half a bushel of malt corn, and they run it then in what they call single and doubling. 1949 Maurer Argot Moonshiner 10 = sprouted corn or corn malt. Barley malt is generally used in large operations, but corn malt is universally used in the eastern Kentucky mountains. It is made by burying a sack of corn under damp leaves until the corn has sprouted, then grinding the sprouted grain. “Yeah, I got a gunny sack of malt corn sprouted.” 1974 Roberts Sang Branch 49 Then we’d take an old sausage mill to grind our malt corn. We’d sprout what was called malt corn. Take and put corn in a coffee sack in water till it sprouted good, until good long sprouts come on it. Then we’d take this mill and grind this malt corn up, about a kag. And then you take your hands like making dough, and you bust ever’ lump in there. Stir just like you was making gravy, to get it all dissolved like milk.