Red Jacket Masa

This Red Jacket Masa was milled to order for our Heirloom Bean and Grain Club. There are just a few left of this very special ingredient so get them while you can. Red Jacket Masa is crafted by Chef Dave Smoke McClusky from a mix of rare Mohawk Red Flour Corn and a Mexican landrace corn. It is named after the great Seneca Chief Red Jacket. It has a delicious sweet corn smell with a slight hint of smoke and an incredible taste and texture.  Mohawk Red Corn, sometimes called Mohawk Red Bread Corn, is one of the rarest and oldest corn varieties still in existence. In 2016,Rowen White, a renowned seed keeper, farmer, educator, and member of Mohawk Akwesasne tribal community brought the last known cob of Mohawk Red to the Native American Seed Sanctuary in the Hudson Valley where it was grown in hopes that it could be not only saved from extinction but rematriated to its ancestral land. In the Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) tradition, Corn Mother is a female spirit and all seeds belong to her. Corn