what is cornmeal
Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried maize (corn). It is a common staple food, and is ground to fine, medium, and coarse consistencies, but not as fine as wheat flour.In the United States, very finely ground cornmeal is also referred to as corn flour. The cornmeal consists of dried corn kernels that have been ground into a fine or medium texture. 2  Steel-ground yellow cornmeal, which is common mostly in the United States, has the husk and germ of the maize kernel almost completely removed.