> Antonia Calvo <dama.antonia@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Margaret Rendell wrote:
> >> Antonia di Benedetto Calvo <dama.antonia@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Nnnnoooo.
> >>
> >> Corn flour is from maize (ie, what N. Americans call corn starch).  
> >> "Wheaten corn flour" is wheat starch.
> >>     
> >
> > I've never seen corn flour made from maize (although I haven't looked 
> all that hard). Ask an Australian coeliac how hard it is to find 
> cornflour that isn't made from wheat...
> >
> >   
> 
> Fielder's "Wheaten Cornflour" is wheat starch, but White Wings Cornflour 
> 
> is maize and is advertised as gluten-free.  It can't be that hard to 
> get, since I found it on the Woolworth's web site.  I think Woolworth's 
> Home Brand is also maize, although I couldn't confirm (it doesn't say 
> "wheaten" on the front of the packet).
> 
> -- 

I use White Wings :) 

Sorry, the point I was trying ineptly to make was that the 'default' cornflour here seems to be wheaten. I also really should have added that it's much easier now to find maize flour than it used to be even a small number of years ago. What is it with the sudden explosion in 'gluten-free' products?

Emma