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Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried corn (maize). It is a common staple food and is ground to coarse, medium, and fine consistencies, but it is not as fine as wheat flour can be. [1] [2] [3] In Mexico and Louisiana, very finely ground cornmeal is referred to as corn flour. [1] [4] When fine cornmeal is made from maize that has ...
Canarian desserts often use simple ingredients, such as cane sugar, honey, matalahuga or matalauva , almonds and traditional miel de palma (especially on the island of La Palma). Among the desserts are bienmesabe (literally, a contraction of the Spanish phrase that means 'tastes good to me'), which is a paste of almonds, honey and sugar often ...
Masa or masa de maíz ( English: / ˈmɑːsə /; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmasa]) is a maize dough that comes from ground nixtamalized corn. It is used for making corn tortillas, gorditas, tamales, pupusas, and many other Latin American dishes. It is dried and powdered into a flour form called masa harina. Masa is reconstituted from masa harina ...
Jimmy Crack Corn. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular ...
Field corn. Field corn, also known as cow corn, is a North American term for maize ( Zea mays) grown for livestock fodder (silage and meal), ethanol, cereal, and processed food products. The principal field corn varieties are dent corn, flint corn, flour corn (also known as soft corn) which includes blue corn ( Zea mays amylacea ), [1] and waxy ...
Syrups made by dissolving granulated sugar in water are sometimes referred to as liquid sugar. A liquid sugar containing 50% sugar and 50% water is called simple syrup. Syrups can also be made by reducing naturally sweet juices such as cane juice, or maple sap. Corn syrup is made by converting corn starch to sugars (mainly maltose and glucose).
Wasanbon (和三盆) is a fine-grained Japanese sugar, traditionally made in the Shikoku prefectures of Tokushima and Kagawa, centered to the towns of Kamiita -cho and Donari -cho in Tokushima, where it has been made since about the 1770s. The sugar is often used for Japanese sweets ( wagashi ). The sugar is made from thin sugarcane plants ...
Marshmallows are prepared by whipping air into gelatin, corn syrup and sugar. The use of marshmallow to make a sweet dates back to ancient Egypt, where the recipe called for an extract from the root of the marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis) and mixing it with nuts and honey. Another pre-modern recipe uses the pith of the marshmallow plant ...