You can get a small cup of sour cream at most supermarkets in the cream cheese section. Speaking of cream cheese, sour cream here is hard like cream cheese. I think you need to mix it with milk or something to soften it.
Corn husk I don’t know. Maybe go to a farmers market and maybe they still have the husk on or ask for it there. It sounds you are making tamales or something.
Sorry I can’t help you specifically but, a lot of sweet corn is harvested in the summer, but field corn is harvested in late September.
I didn’t know there was a demand for that level of authentic Mexican cuisine here. What condition do the corn husks have to be in? Fresh? Dried? I grow field corn and usually just mulch/compost all my husks after harvest.
You can find corn husks on Rakuten! Or Amazon sometimes has it. Sour cream is at Aeon as well in some locations. For the masa you can also find it on Rakuten. There’s some shops that sell chiles and everything you might need minus the steam pot
Not always but Costco often has a big amount of sour cream.
Sour cream is dead easy to make. You just need cream, milk, lemon/vinegar, and a jar to shake it in (and then let it sit overnight).
People always shit on me for recommending to just make difficult to find ingredients, but this one is easy enough, and you’re already trying to make something pretty complicated (tamales), so hopefully people don’t bitch at me.
Someone already brought up making sour cream. Some cream, a few drops of lemon, and it’ll thicken immediately. Not the same, but close enough in a pinch.
For tamales, I heard a LOOOONG time ago you can use parchment paper (baking paper) in the same way. Not easy to use, doesn’t look good, but the same–maybe?
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You can get a small cup of sour cream at most supermarkets in the cream cheese section. Speaking of cream cheese, sour cream here is hard like cream cheese. I think you need to mix it with milk or something to soften it.
Corn husk I don’t know. Maybe go to a farmers market and maybe they still have the husk on or ask for it there. It sounds you are making tamales or something.
Sorry I can’t help you specifically but, a lot of sweet corn is harvested in the summer, but field corn is harvested in late September.
I didn’t know there was a demand for that level of authentic Mexican cuisine here. What condition do the corn husks have to be in? Fresh? Dried? I grow field corn and usually just mulch/compost all my husks after harvest.
You can find corn husks on Rakuten! Or Amazon sometimes has it. Sour cream is at Aeon as well in some locations. For the masa you can also find it on Rakuten. There’s some shops that sell chiles and everything you might need minus the steam pot
Not always but Costco often has a big amount of sour cream.
Sour cream is dead easy to make. You just need cream, milk, lemon/vinegar, and a jar to shake it in (and then let it sit overnight).
People always shit on me for recommending to just make difficult to find ingredients, but this one is easy enough, and you’re already trying to make something pretty complicated (tamales), so hopefully people don’t bitch at me.
Someone already brought up making sour cream. Some cream, a few drops of lemon, and it’ll thicken immediately. Not the same, but close enough in a pinch.
For tamales, I heard a LOOOONG time ago you can use parchment paper (baking paper) in the same way. Not easy to use, doesn’t look good, but the same–maybe?