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cornmeal

[ kawrn-meel ]

noun

  1. Also called Indian meal. coarsely ground, unsifted white or yellow corn used in various boiled, fried, or baked dishes.
  2. (in Scotland) oatmeal.


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Origin of cornmeal1

First recorded in 1740–50; corn 1 + meal 2
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But cornmeal is also thirsty, and my first attempt — which leaned on a mixture of olive oil, melted butter and a single egg for moisture — was dry, almost crumbly.

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Varying methods of stirring "fungee", a cornmeal paste which also hails from the mother continent, and precisely what to add to it is another subject of friendly bickering.

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My three most used ingredients right now would have to be cornmeal, seasoning meat and sorghum molasses.

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I still remember when his business was a small warehouse space, a tiny upstairs office and a single mill to process blue corn into cornmeal.

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The 11 ingredients in the book — beans, calabaza, cassava, chayote, coconut, cornmeal, okra, plantains, rice, salted cod and scotch bonnet peppers — are all inherently Caribbean ingredients.

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