NO, totally different thing use bran
White corn meal. You need the corn meal to make corn muffins.
Yes - ask for cornflour. DO NOT use cornflour - totally the wrong thing. eta: Cornflour in the UK is corn starch. This isn't the same as cornmeal! Still trying to find cornmeal in the UK, will add more when I know. BUT:- coarse cornmeal, polenta or maize meal or the more finely ground maize flour should be available in most big supermarkets often called - cornmeal, maize meal, maize flour, polenta, or polenta flour.
Cornmeal is used in making cornbread. A similar product is called "cornflour" in Britain.
I personally would use normal cornflour instead because wheaten cornflour is really hard to find but you may wish to use something else.
Nothing
The only alternative to cornflour I know is to mix equal parts of softened butter and plain flour to form a paste and use the paste instead of cornflour.
you use cornflour instead but it dosent work as well
you use cornflour instead but it dosent work as well
use "I can't believe its not cornflour"
Maize meal is basically what we call "cornmeal" in the US. It is used for a number of recipes, but it cannot be substituted for flour in cakes. Cakes have to baked with flour to achieve a light, tender crumb, but you can use cornmeal for making sweet corn muffins.
Polenta, it's an Italian dish! Cornbread, corn muffins, and cornmeal mush can also be made from ground corn. A non-food use of ground corn is to make ethanol, a biofuel commonly used to power automobiles in the western hemisphere.
Yes, just put the mix into a cake tin instead of into muffin cases.