[Sca-cooks] polenta

[Terry Decker]

You should be able to find polenta recipes in the Florilegium. They have
been posted here a number of times.   Polenta is cooked meal and has been
made from most grains.  Barley was a common grain for the Romans and Apicius
has a recipe for fried polenta made from fine wheat flour.

Because of its natural sweetness, maize appears to have become the polenta
grain of choice sometime during the 16th Century.

Bear


>I was just watching Molto Mario's episode about an abruzzi meal, and he was
>making gnocchi's with semolina floor and milk and he said that it was
>semolina which was made of wheat but the way it looked it was sometimes
>mistaken for polenta.
>
>I know that corn is a new world food, and know polenta used to be made with
>wheat, so is semolina what they used to use to make polenta?  Anybody know
>where I can find a recipe for polenta?
>
> Angeline