Gluten Free Dining Card - English & Mexican Spanish

[sweetea]

Thank you Al!

I'd be nervous about telling them that cornmeal is ok? also corn torillas as they both can have wheat flour mixed into them?

[aztecprincess]

Yes Al, I know it's been a while but I figured I could answer this one question to Sweetea. We don't really have cornmeal, except for oriental food markets and only for people who know about Polenta. Like I mentioned earlier, limestone is added to white corn to remove husks and "cook" it. Water is added to the resulting flour to make the dough. So, corn tortillas are totally safe!
And one more thing, the corn starch commonly used here in Mexico is "Maicena," a brand by UNILEVER. A while ago I discovered in horror that is actually a mix that includes wheat in its ingredients!!!! I've already written to them asking them to then modify its name to batter mix rather than just cornstarch, but haven't heard back from them... I've since then found imported American cornstarch at the oriental market and have had no problems. So maybe Al, we need to modify that cornstarch line on the menu card. What do you think? Gotta go.
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[aklap]

Sweatea - yeah as I was re-reading that i was wondering about the cornmeal too - thinking it should be removed. If I remember correctly I grabbed the text of that from a website and modified it. This was done years ago and I've learned a bit more since then...

I'll remove the cornmeal/polenta. Maybe I can clarify the corn tortillas by adding "no wheat flour". Remove the cornstarch or say pure cornstarch [no wheat].

Iris - Hey! I was thinking about you recently - wondering how you've been. Thanks for helping out on this again. I'll re-work it then if you'd be so kind to work your magic on it...
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Al

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