Cornmeal In Cupboard??!!!?

Question

Just a quick question, i have just found a packet of cornmeal in my cupboard.

Anyone have any nice simple recipes ideas??

Answer 1

My Grandma made this in her iron skillet on the stove top... I never could do it like her... always burned the bottom, but if I put it in the oven it turns out perfect. If you don't like your corn bread too sweet, you can cut the sugar to suite your liking...

Sweet Corn Bread

* 1/4 cup butter, softened
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
* 1 1/2 cups biscuit baking mix
* 1/4 cup cornmeal
* 2/3 cup milk

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla.

3. In a separate bowl, stir together baking mix and cornmeal. Blend this mixture into the butter/egg mixture, alternately with the milk; stir just until combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.

4. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 30 minutes, until golden.

Answer 2

Make cornbread. Roll fish in it and fry. Go on line to the recipe sites and look up cornmeal recipes. It has a lot of uses.

Answer 3

If you like cornmeal on the sweet side, here is a Marie Callendar's copy cat recipe that is very good.

MARIE CALLENDAR CORNBREAD

1 c flour
1 c cornmeal
2/3 c sugar
1/3 tsp salt
1 T baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 c butter
1 c buttermilk (or milk with a little lemon juice in it)
2 eggs

Sift together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add the butter, half the buttermilk and one egg. Beat the mixture for 2 minutes. Add the last half of the buttermilk and one egg. Beat 2 minutes more. Pour the batter into a sprayed 8x8" pan. Bake in preheated 350º oven for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

(You can use dry buttermilk powder but when you do, sift it with the dry ingredients and add the water in the last two steps - when you normally would add the buttermilk - so use the water for the same amount of liquid).

Another thing you can do with your cornmeal is take a cup of cornmeal and place in a bowl. Put a cup of water on to boil and add a dash of salt to it. Once it's boiling, stir in the cornmeal and stir until it again comes to a boil and thickens. Remove from heat, pour into a sprayed 8x8" cake pan and set aside to cool. Place in the refrigerator overnight. Next morning, cut it into squares, heat a little butter in a skillet, add the squares a lightly brown on the top and bottom. Serve with syrup. My mom loves that. That's cornmeal mush. You could eat it hot as well - like oatmeal with sugar and milk.

And, what my grandmother loved was called Corn Pone and Pot Likker. She would take boiling water, pour it into the bowl of dry cornmeal with a dash of salt (equal amounts of water and cornmeal), cover and let sit. She wouldn't boil it - just the water. Once it came to room temperature, she would put her hand in the bowl and pull out a small handful. She would shape it into a "pod" with her hands - and in those days if one of them had an imprint of your wedding ring on it, that was good luck. She would then brown it in a little butter. For the Pot Likker, she would save the juice/water from cooking raw veggies and use that for broth. That broth, with a little black pepper, was her Pot Likker. She would pour the broth into a bowl and place one of the "pods" in the center of the bowl. She would serve it just that way. You would take your spoon, pull off a little bit of the Corn Pone and a little of the Pot Likker on the same spoon and put it in your mouth. Very nice.

Answer 4

Cornmeal bread is good ( also called johnny cake ) , any left over you can toast it in the morning for breakfast. Also I like cornmeal cereal. Cook it just like oatmeal with maple syrup on it, DELICIOUS!

Answer 5

Check it first to be sure it isn't weavilly. Corn meal stored in cupboard often is. Store cornmeal in zip lock bag in frig. Corn bread good choice.

Answer 6

No, and I have no idea what Cornmeal is but it sounds so nice.

R

Answer 7

How about cornmeal flatbreads:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/cornmealflatbreads_86122.shtml

Answer 8

Dunno what cornmeal is hunny... but do u have any plans for the maple syrup in the fridge?