Corn on the cob in the solar oven could be the best corn on the cob I’ve ever had and Vince said the same thing.

First, remove some of the outermost darker green husks but leave the lighter green ones.  I also snipped off the end of the silks where they were dead and . . well . . kinda slimy.  This corn wasn’t picked yesterday!

I added about 1/4 cup salt to a couple of gallons of water and stuck the corn down in there.  Because the corn is bigger than the container, I flipped it after it had been in the water about 10 minutes.

Stuffed peppers are already in the solar oven and I put the little cookie sheet over them and placed the corn, without any kind of wrapping, right on the cookie sheet.

I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the time.  There were a few clouds that rolled in and I had put everything in the oven early enough so I didn’t worry about not having sun for brief periods.  The peppers and corn were probably in the oven about 1-1/2 hours.

The corn comes out absolutely perfect! The silks mostly come off with the husks.  This is the same corn I bought last weekend and put up 25 pints and the silks were so deeply embedded into the kernels that I gave up getting them out and cut the corn off the cob and then picked the silks out of the cut corn.

Since the corn was soaked in salt water to hydrate the husks, there’s just enough salt in the corn that no extra salt is needed . . just a little bit of butter and it was perfect!

It was time for a break from quilting so I decided to make cookies in the solar oven.

It was a perfect sunny afternoon.  Within minutes of opening up the oven, the temp was at 350º, exactly where I needed it to be.  The little Granite Ware cookie sheet fits perfectly and is just the right size for 6 cookies . . 5 for me and 1 for Vince!    Not really . . I only had one cookie.

When I open the door, a lot of the heat escapes and it takes it a few minutes to get back up to 350º so it took them about 15 minutes to cook.

Vince will be so happy to have homemade cookies that he will not even mind that I’m going to spend the evening sewing.

And, what about the rest of the cookie dough?

A cookie sheet was lined with wax paper and spoonfuls of the dough was dropped onto the wax paper.  I stuck it in the freezer for about 20 minutes to flash freeze it.

Then the frozen dough was pulled off the wax paper and dropped into a freezer bag and returned to the freezer.  Next time we want cookies, we can simply take out as many pieces as we need want and bake them, having fresh homemade cookies without any mess to clean up.