hominy -
A food made from hulled corn maize kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
Wikipedia
Hominy or nixtamal is dried maize kernels which have been treated with an alkali. File:Tsalagi word. png This article contains Cherokee syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics.
