SC - Toys for Tots and other comments

[BalthazarBlack@aol.com]

Polenta describes a boiled grain meal usually cooked drier than a puls or a
gruel.  Apicius has a recipe for one from fine wheat flour which is sliced,
fried and served with honey.  Cato (IIRC) speaks of barley polenta.

Bear

> In a message dated 8/7/00 6:36:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:
> 
> > Cornmeal is coarsely ground corn flour (milled grain).  It 
> is commonly used
> >  to make polenta
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong (as I am sure you will), but wasn't 
> the original 
> "polenta" made with semolina flour (i.e. Hard Durham wheat)?? 
>  I have been 
> making polenta for years with durham wheat, and have never 
> had any problems 
> with it.  While I know that cornmeal is often used, I do 
> believe the original 
> was made with semolina.... I would like to know if anyone 
> else can back me up 
> on this, as I cannot, for the life of me, find my original 
> reference for this 
> (maybe it's in the trunk of my car...)
> 
> Balthazar of Blackmoor