Butter Boiled Corn

It’s sweet corn season, which means we’ve all been eating a lot of corn lately. Corn is best in the summer; basically from May to September is the best time to purchase your corn, with mid-summer being the best possible time. I read a tip recently that said the best way to cook corn on the cob was to add milk and butter to your pot while it’s boiling.

Now I’ve eaten corn on the cob for decades and I’ve never heard anyone adding milk and butter to the boil. Usually you add butter AFTER the ear of corn has cooked – and milk? Milk has never been a part of my corn-cooking process.

Curious to taste this corn on the cob trick, I cut up five ears of corn into halves and put them in a pot of water. I brought the water to a boil and then added 1 cup of milk and 1 stick of butter. After about eight minutes the corn was ready to go.

The final result? The corn came out AMAZING. So much better than I could have imagined!