Goodweed of the North said:Masa Harina is made by cooking corn flour with lime juice, drying, and crushing into flour.
Michael in FtW said:I'll try to get my son to look in my old Foxfire books (that he has on permanent loan)
Michael in FtW said:If I remember right .... the Native Americans used wood ash from the cooking fires for this.
Magia said:I don't know what "masa harina" is but from the rest of replies, I assume it is corn flower dough.
Michael in FtW said:Magia said:I don't know what "masa harina" is but from the rest of replies, I assume it is corn flower dough.
Close Magia - masa harina is just corn (white or yellow) ground to a very fine texture into a flour (masa = corn, harnia = flour).
Andy M. said:Interestingly enough, no one ever answered the original question that started this thread. There was an immediate derailment to what masa harina was and things never got back on track.
Since the question goes back to October 2004, I'm hoping the need was not a pressing one.
Sometimes, you don't need to know how to build a clock, you just want to know what time it is.