Cornmeal © Denzil Green Cornmeal is a very coarse meal made from certain types of sweet corn. To make cornmeal, corn kernels are removed from the cobs, dried, then ground coarsely. The corn used is usually Dent Corn. The Cornmeal may be white, yellow or blue, depending on the cultivar of Dent Corn used. The…
Corn Flours
Cornstarch
Cornstarch © Denzil Green Cornstarch (called “cornflour” in the UK) is a fine smooth white powder, not yellow at all, made from the very centre of dried corn kernels (the “endosperms.”) It has twice the thickening oomph that wheat flour does, but it can also have the same starchy taste as flour unless it is…
Flour Corn
Flour Corn kernels have a very large endosperm, giving them a lot of starch, and making them soft and easily breakable. It’s not grown much anymore. Indians used to grind it for flour.