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    What is the difference between cornmeal and masa harina?

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Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.What is the difference between cornmeal and masa harina?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(What is the difference between cornmeal and masa harina?),it will help you,my kids.




Answers:
Information can be found at:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Nov/08/hf/hf02a.html

That site says:

What's the difference between polenta and grits? Grits are made from ground, dried white or yellow corn kernels from which the hull of the corn is removed by an alkali, such as slaked lime or lye.
Cornmeal can be ground fine, medium or coarse. Regular cornmeal, used for cornbread and other baked goods, usually is ground very fine, almost like flour. Cornmeal used for polenta, a cornmeal mush, is medium or coarsely ground.

Polenta, a northern Italian dish, can also be made of white cornmeal, buckwheat or chestnut meal. Polenta refers to the dish as well as the grain from which it is made.



Grits, or hominy grits, a specialty of the South, are prepared much like polenta, seasoned with butter, salt and pepper or cooled to a firm consistency, sliced and fried. Whole, dried hominy is known as posole in Mexico; when it is ground into flour, it is masa harina.

Other Answers:
corn meal has not been milled as long and therefor has a coarser texture. masa harina (corn flour) has been milled to a state just like wheat flour.


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