worth1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 10:03 am

Tormato wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:47 am

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:25 am @Tormato
Not for sure what you mean by corn flour.
We have regular cornmeal and mass harina.
I've made it with masa harina before and it came out great.
The mass harina comes yellow and white and one is more coarse that the other because one is for tamales and the other for tortillas.
Not a lot of difference though.
But both are more fine than cornmeal and it does rise.
Many tamale makers as well as myself use a little baking powder in our tamale dough.
Oddly enough in the UK corn flour is what we call corn starch.

Doesn't masa harina remove the hull?

Corn flour is ultra fine corm meal (think the fineness of wheat flour), but it is not corn starch.

Yes it removes the hull and is called nixtamal.
We just don't get corn ground that fine here that I know of.
We can barely get cornmeal anymore.

There are a lot of new products up here; grains, legumes, meats, rubs and spices, drinks, and other things, all seem to be marketed toward people from the Caribbean. It's keeping me busy looking them up, finding out what they are, and then how to cook with them.

One thing that I have to look out for is the "best by" date (knowing exactly what it means). One store received a pallet of masa harina (4lb? 5lb? bags), where the "best by" date had just "expired" by about a month. With bags at half price, the pallet was gone in a couple of weeks.

I need to get something to make a single serving of cornbread.
I like it fresh from the oven.
After that the birds can have it.

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 10:03 am
Yes it removes the hull and is called nixtamal.
We just don't get corn ground that fine here that I know of.
We can barely get cornmeal anymore.

You need to reconstitute it out of the gas. 10-15%, right?

JRinPA wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 12:36 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 10:03 am
Yes it removes the hull and is called nixtamal.
We just don't get corn ground that fine here that I know of.
We can barely get cornmeal anymore.

You need to reconstitute it out of the gas. 10-15%, right?

Yeah no kidding.
Most of the stuff is premixed cornbread mix.
The have 1 pound bags only most of the time unless you're in a smaller town and they have the big bags.
But one heck of a lot of masa harina.

Lodge's smallest skillet appears to be 3.5 inches. I may get one for cornbread experiments, as some of this exotic flour that I'm finding is about $5/lb.

There is a holiday snowflake edition, but I currently can't figure, or find, out if it is raised or recessed in the skillet. If raised, the cornbread would then have the snowflake recessed, which would hold honey and stop it from running off of the top of the cornbread.

Tormato wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:41 pm Lodge's smallest skillet appears to be 3.5 inches. I may get one for cornbread experiments, as some of this exotic flour that I'm finding is about $5/lb.

There is a holiday snowflake edition, but I currently can't figure, or find, out if it is raised or recessed in the skillet. If raised, the cornbread would then have the snowflake recessed, which would hold honey and stop it from running off of the top of the cornbread.

I think wee little skillet was ment to be an ashtray.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:44 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:41 pm Lodge's smallest skillet appears to be 3.5 inches. I may get one for cornbread experiments, as some of this exotic flour that I'm finding is about $5/lb.

There is a holiday snowflake edition, but I currently can't figure, or find, out if it is raised or recessed in the skillet. If raised, the cornbread would then have the snowflake recessed, which would hold honey and stop it from running off of the top of the cornbread.

I think wee little skillet was ment to be an ashtray.

Yes. It is also listed by some retailers as a spoon holder.

But, it looks like the perfect size for fresh out of the oven cornbread, with little leftovers.

Tormato wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 6:50 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:44 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:41 pm Lodge's smallest skillet appears to be 3.5 inches. I may get one for cornbread experiments, as some of this exotic flour that I'm finding is about $5/lb.

There is a holiday snowflake edition, but I currently can't figure, or find, out if it is raised or recessed in the skillet. If raised, the cornbread would then have the snowflake recessed, which would hold honey and stop it from running off of the top of the cornbread.

I think wee little skillet was ment to be an ashtray.

Yes. It is also listed my some retailers as a spoon holder.

But, it looks like the perfect size for fresh out of the oven cornbread, with little leftovers.

My family always used it to melt butter in.

I have one somewhere but no idea where.
I just run across it sometimes.
I've never used it for anything.

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 10:42 am I have one somewhere but no idea where.
I just run across it sometimes.
I've never used it for anything.

If you find it and use it for fresh single-serving cornbread, the birds might get a bit hungry.

Took a couple of days digging through piles of cast iron but I found one of my ashtrays.

Uncle_Feist wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:48 pm Took a couple of days digging through piles of cast iron but I found one of my ashtrays.

No butts about it, that's an ashtray.

Now you've got me wondering how few people got the joke, in National Lampoon's Vacation, about Clark Griswold's son being...


...Rusty.

I never picked up on it.

Now you've got me wondering if ANY other people got the joke, in National Lampoon's Vacation, about Clark Griswold's son being...

...Rusty.

Rusty just wasn't as seasoned as Clark.

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 3:57 pm Now you've got me wondering if ANY other people got the joke, in National Lampoon's Vacation, about Clark Griswold's son being...

...Rusty.

I think it was only you and maybe a handful more and the connection was a possible coincidence.

Unless somebody that knew the writer and he said something to them no one will ever know because the writer passed away.

Uncle_Feist wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 4:22 pm Rusty just wasn't as seasoned as Clark.

Well, with a background in non-nutritive cereal varnish, Clark's career has cast an iron-clad expertise in food-grade coatings.

So in @Tormato 's world...
"Hey Hon, I picked up a rusty old griswold for 2 bucks at a yard sale! Check it out."
"Babe I told you I need this whole weekend to finish this script! Stop bothering me, but call me lunch is ready. (aside) A rusty griswold... (hmmm) that is a fantastic name for the teenage boy in the script. But it won't work for this actor...it would need to be an unlikeable red headed stepchild type...that looks nothing like the father!"

Uncle_Feist wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:48 pm Took a couple of days digging through piles of cast iron but I found one of my ashtrays.

I'm wondering when my nightmares are going to start, about all of your unused treasure.