Question of the Day - Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

[fowltemptress]

Mostly we say flour, not meal. Except when we are talking about ground corn. We call that corn meal.

Corn meal and corn flour are different things, though, and both are commonly found in supermarkets. I don't really bake with either, but I do keep corn flour on hand for thickening chili, and corn meal I use for sprinkling my pizza stone.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Corn meal and corn flour are different things, though, and both are commonly found in supermarkets. I don't really bake with either, but I do keep corn flour on hand for thickening chili, and corn meal I use for sprinkling my pizza stone.

Thank you for that. I use corn meal for making corn bread, which my husband loves, and also sometimes for making a kind of corn mush or hot cereal called polenta. I have bever used corn flour but will look into it. I have used corn meal on a pizza stone but now I find parchment paper to be easier.

 

[cavemanrich]

I have used corn meal on a pizza stone but now I find parchment paper to be easier.

I always use corn meal on pizzas. It give a distinct texture thingie to the crust.
I use parchment for all other baking.

 

[Barbours]

Today's question is from @Evadig :

Neither. I don't eat it often, but brown sugar or honey when I do.

In oatmeal I put milk and honey . Molasses is for cornbread

 

[fowltemptress]

In oatmeal I put milk and honey . Molasses is for cornbread

Really? Interesting sounding combination. I think I'll have to try cornbread and molasses now.

 

[Barbours]

Really? Interesting sounding combination. I think I'll have to try cornbread and molasses now.

I don't know I thought that was normal. My whole family has been born and raised in the south and that's how we've always done it. Don't know though maybe we're just weird . We eat cornbread with butter, honey and molasses not all together though.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Nothing as I dont eat oatmeal its like vomit in a bowl lol same with cream of wheat

 

[fowltemptress]

I don't know I thought that was normal. My whole family has been born and raised in the south and that's how we've always done it. Don't know though maybe we're just weird . We eat cornbread with butter, honey and molasses not all together though.

There's a lot of totally normal stuff that I'm unaware of. Like sweet cornbread, for instance. I thought that was a weird dessert thing Jacob's Deli served, but apparently a lot of people add sugar to cornbread. That's so odd and off putting to me.

 

[fowltemptress]

Nothing as I dont eat oatmeal its like vomit in a bowl lol same with cream of wheat

I'll trade you vomit experiences, if that's the case!

 

[Barbours]

There's a lot of totally normal stuff that I'm unaware of. Like sweet cornbread, for instance. I thought that was a weird dessert thing Jacob's Deli served, but apparently a lot of people add sugar to cornbread. That's so odd and off putting to me.

Ya I agree on that one. I've never had sweet cornbread. We use cornmeal from a local corn mill which is naturally kinda sweet but we don't add sugar .