cathyxyz wrote:

> jake wrote:
>
>>> Pap and Cheese Bake
>>>
>>> 1.2 litres water (1 1/2 pints)
>>> 5 ml salt
>>> 300 gram mealie (maize) meal (500 ml)
>>
>>
>> How finely ground is this? More like corn starch? Or polenta? Or
>> regular wheat flour? I'd like to try this recipe, and would be albe to
>> dind any one of those three ingredient,s but probably nothing called
>> mealie.
>
>
> It is fairly coarsely ground..Like I said to Jude, it sounds pretty
> close to polenta...
>
> Found this on Wiki when I did a search for polenta:
>
> Polenta is often cooked in a huge copper pot called a paiolo in
> Italian.... <snip>
>
>
> Interesting facts
>
> * In South Africa, cornmeal mush is a staple food called mealie
> pap; in Zimbabwe it is called sadza and in Zambia it is nshima;
> elsewhere in Africa it may also be called fufu.
>
>
Really? I thought fufu was from yams or something.

And thanks for the info. once my pantry gets emptier, I'll buy some
polenta to play with.Sounds like I'll discover some new textures,
including this pap.