Corn flour

[YerbaMate]

I decided to plant Three sisters this year and harvest some. For the beans and zucchini it's pretty simple but with corn I started to thinking about some hand crank mill to produce flour. And my question is does anybody done this and may share some information? Corn as a grain for flour is not very popular in Poland so I decided to start new post.
Secale or wheat grain after ground need to be sieve for clean flour but it is not necessarily, I used such "dirty" flour for baking bread and it's ok. What about corn flour? Any tips? I will be grateful for some help.

 

[DrHenley]

Corn is usually ground into cornmeal here, not corn flour. Cornmeal is coarser than flour and does not form gluten when kneaded, which means it won't form an actual dough. (nor will corn flour) Nixtamalized corn flour (masa) can form a dough however. Corn is nixtamalized by soaking in alkaline. Nixtamalization also softens the corn, making more of the corn edible, and converts niacin into a form that can be used by the human body. Corn tortillas and tortilla chips are made from masa, not cornmeal.

What we call "cornbread" is very coarse compared to wheat bread and doesn't hold together very well. A lot of people mix wheat flour with cornmeal when making cornbread to make it stick together better. My grandmother's recipe used about half wheat flour and was somewhat sweet. My mother's recipe did not use wheat flour or sugar, and used egg to help bind it.

Cornmeal is commonly used to make a batter for frying fish, especially catfish. And of course for corn dogs, corn fritters, hush puppies (fried balls of cornbread batter), spoonbread, corn chips, etc.

BTW, the word "corn" can mean different things in different parts of the world. What we call "corn" is sometimes called "maize" and what we call "wheat" is sometimes called "corn." So when speaking to an international audience, you can eliminate confusion by qualifying it "corn (maize)".

 

[YerbaMate]

Okay, quick search and I have found informations about nixtamalization. Good to know that, I'll keep it in mind and will try to make some.

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[Psalm7]

Iv looked into hand crank grain mills and it seems Corona makes the best but there is a cheaper knock off copy on several web sites that is alot cheaper . The Coronas are a bit expensive .