Corn, Dried

The only commercial Pennsylvania producer is the John F. Cope Company of Rheems. White sweet corn is toasted so that the sugar content carmelizes slightly to yield a yellow-brown dried product. The finished corn contains about 5 percent water, as opposed to 75 percent in fresh corn. Dried corn is reconstituted through cooking much like rice and yields four to five times its dry bulk. Old-style non-sweet dried corns are no longer sold commercially but are still made at home.