 Now when you're actually ready to Cook your or flint corn, which you gotta do is take your dry kernels like these Add some of this cowl or lime and you end up with this Hominie as your finished product basically you want to Add this to a pot For every six cups or so of water that you add enough to cover it to cover the corn you want to add about half a tablespoon of the lime Cook it and then let it sit until the outer skin comes off of the corn and Then you end up with your hominid The reason you do this is because the dry corn in and of itself even though you can grind it as is to make things like cornbread You aren't getting the full nutrition out of it the B vitamins are locked up Which can only be released by cooking them in an alkaline solution like lime or traditionally wood ashes would have been used as well and If you don't do this and corn is making up a big part of your diet Then you will eventually develop palagra as a lot of white colonists did when they adopted corn as one of their staples and That will eventually kill you so don't do that If you occasionally want to have some cornbread or something you can grind this up and use it But if you're making corn a staple of your diet, you gotta next to my eyes it You got to treat it with lime or wood ash to create hominid from there You can grind this into masa for your tortillas your tamales any kind of food products like that