What is cornmeal? Ground field corn (not sweet corn) that comes in a variety of textures, from fine corn flour to coarse grits.

Cornmeal is used in many dishes, but if you always pick yellow cornmeal off the grocery-store shelf, now might be the time to ...

It'll be light and tender, but with a little coarser crumb. If you typically use medium-ground cornmeal but want a bit of crunch, add a little coarse-ground cornmeal.

Corn meal contains small amounts of fat and crude fiber and not more than 15 percent moisture. Most corn meal is roller ground and then enriched with niacin, iron, thiamine and riboflavin.

A. Regular cornmeal is ground between metal rollers and the hull and germ are removed so the texture is finer. It also may be enriched to return nutrients that are lost.

Cornmeal tea can also be used for disease control. Soak 1 cup of whole ground cornmeal in 5 gallons of water for an hour, strain out the solids, and spray plants or drench on the soil around plants.

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