Plimoth Grist Mill Heritage 8 Row Flint Cornmeal

“Nature hath delighted it selfe to beautify this Corne with great Variety of Colours.” A true Plimoth Patuxet original! In the 1990's the Museum teamed up with botanists from UMASS Amherst to develop a corn which closely resembled period descriptions of the corn grown by the Wampanoag and adopted by the Pilgrims in the 1600's. Our Plimoth 8-Row Flint Corn is the result. To produce this multi-colored Indian corn with 8 rows of kernels, an ancient 8-rowed white corn called Naragansett White Cap Flint (still grown in Rhode Island for Jonnycakes), was crossed with multi-colored flint corns. Years of selected seed saving resulted in a beautiful multi-colored corn which exactly matches the descriptions by visitors to early Plymouth Colony. Our Plimoth 8-Row Flint is grown for us by Lazy Acres Farm in North Hadley, MA. The corn is stone ground on antique millstones and, like the first grist mill built here in 1636, our waterwheel is powered by Plymouth’s Town Brook. Flavor and Preparation Pli