On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:03:52 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:

>
> On 19-Jan-2014, sf > wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:15:19 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
> >
> > > I admit that, to date, I have not had the need for self-rising
> > > cornmeal.
> > >
> > Me either, but I can't say I've ever seen self-rising cornmeal in the
> > grocery store either. I downloaded the kindle version to my cloud
> > reader and see that it must be another typically Southern ingredient
> > that we don't find elsewhere very often, because she talks about
> > "smuggling" it into Pennsylvania when she "lived up North".
>
> I believe it is a "southern" thing, or at least regional. We have it here
> in STL in some supermarkets, pretty much the same ones that have hock and
> shanks and similar items. Though my grandmother never used it, preferring
> coarse ground from the feed mill, self-rising cornmeal is what was sold in
> my grandparents general store in 1950s Kentucky.

Thanks for the confirmation, much appreciated! STL (St. Louis) is
centrally located and seems to reflect a little bit of everywhere.


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