Depends on what qualities you want. I think homeground has more taste. Remember stuff you buy in store is degerminated for long shelf life. Like white flour compared to whole wheat. Whole wheat flour has lot more taste and nutrition.
Popcorn makes pretty good cornmeal. Old fashion open pollinated Indian corn makes good cornmeal also. Both these are flint type corn. The field corn is dent. For some reason, it seems to have a bit of an off taste although I've ground it and made polenta. Dont know if all dent corn tastes like this or just modern hybrids. Not horribly bad but an aquired taste. Oh, if you let sweet corn go to hard seed stage, it makes interesting sweetish tasting corn meal.
I've never done it, but believe they use lye to make hominy. Traditionally people even made their own lye from wood ashes.
Popcorn makes pretty good cornmeal. Old fashion open pollinated Indian corn makes good cornmeal also. Both these are flint type corn. The field corn is dent. For some reason, it seems to have a bit of an off taste although I've ground it and made polenta. Dont know if all dent corn tastes like this or just modern hybrids. Not horribly bad but an aquired taste. Oh, if you let sweet corn go to hard seed stage, it makes interesting sweetish tasting corn meal.
I've never done it, but believe they use lye to make hominy. Traditionally people even made their own lye from wood ashes.
r.h. in okla. said: