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Post by raymondo on Dec 29, 2011 22:32:22 GMT -5
Could popcorn be used used for making polenta, or flour? Or are the starches not the appropriate type?
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 30, 2011 0:22:01 GMT -5
Ray, I think you could try grinding popcorn and boiling it and see what you've got. I was at a show where a fellow ground popcorn, measured it up, mixed it with boiling water and then added it to a commercial pancake better, put them on the grill and served them up to the crowd. (He was selling a grinder). I couldn't get near enough to taste them, old age and treachery is no match for youthful dodging and fleetness of foot. You should never put your hands in front of feral children. Ray, I'm posting you a surprise. I wish your mail was faster
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Post by raymondo on Dec 30, 2011 4:17:38 GMT -5
It must have been okay if the guy had hoped to sell any grinders. Might give it a go some time, just out of curiosity. Ray, I'm posting you a surprise. I wish your mail was faster I love surprises. Can't wait!
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 30, 2011 8:19:49 GMT -5
I think I read that some Native american tribes use ground popcorn to make pinole (a spice mush sometimes thinned into a drink)
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Post by bunkie on Dec 30, 2011 11:30:55 GMT -5
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 30, 2011 13:58:13 GMT -5
Could popcorn be used used for making polenta, or flour? Or are the starches not the appropriate type? I really need to work on my vocabulary. I thought that I didn't know the slightest thing about polenta... So after some Internet searches I discovered that polenta is a foreign word that in the language of my family would be called "corn mush". Ha!!! We have made corn mush out of popcorn for as long as I can remember. And if we don't eat it all as mush, we make it into "fried grits". We grind our own corn meal as well. Popcorn is the only thing we use for both. I don't know why, it's just family tradition, and who would ever question that?!? I keep thinking that I aughta give some Painted Mountain Flour corn to my mamma and ask her to make her favorite cornbread recipe and see how it turns out.
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Post by spacecase0 on Dec 30, 2011 14:02:47 GMT -5
I have made corn bread with popcorn, it tasted like popcorn, it was kind of fun, and my friends liked it, but did not want it to many times in the future flour corn makes a super fluffy corn bread, and the popcorn corn bread was way more solid, I bet the pop corn would make better polenta
and from that link, I have the same mill, and you don't need the corn and bean auger for pop corn (but it sure will not hurt), and if you set the plates correct you don't need to sift anything out.
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Post by Walk on Dec 30, 2011 14:32:03 GMT -5
We like using yellow popcorn for nixtamal to make tortillas. Better flavor than the flour corns we tried.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 30, 2011 14:34:31 GMT -5
Joseph, There is a difference between polenta and grits.
Polenta is served with wine and attitude. Grits are served with coffee and platitudes.
And as Aldous Huxley once said, "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
So eat your grits and your polenta.
The most significant thing that I have learned about dried corn is as Carol Says: Flint is for Boiling, Flour is for Baking. To that I'll add if you boil the flint, then it makes for good baking. I've been putting it in bread and pizza dough for a couple of months now. We've had biscuits, muffins, pancakes and plain ol' cornbread (the kind without sugar), don't tell Dar, I've been sneaking honey into it. Honey and corn are wonderful together.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 30, 2011 17:15:19 GMT -5
I was reading polenta recipes. There are garlic/chicken flavored polentas, and sweet creamed polentas, etc... Who knew?
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Post by DarJones on Dec 30, 2011 18:20:00 GMT -5
Or you could try it the way I do. basic corn meal mush with chopped onions and small chunks of turkey chopped up in it. Pan fry in butter until crispy brown.
DarJones
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Post by steev on Dec 31, 2011 0:19:19 GMT -5
Or you could mix it with stewed tomatoes, sauteed ground beef and onion, and chilies=tamale pie!
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