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Flour is the most common thickening agent in buttermilk pies, while chess pies use cornmeal.
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Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
Known for its modern take on South Carolina's culinary past, the restaurant focuses on elevated lowcountry and southern cuisine with dishes like red cornmeal fried oysters, lobster arancini, and lowcountry pirlou with butter-poached lobster, crab, shrimp, mussels, saffron, and more.
—Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
Scatter cold shortening cubes over the top and process until mixture looks like cornmeal, about 10 seconds.
—Kristen Browning-Blas, Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2025
Made in minutes in the skillet with only precooked cornmeal, water and salt, the corn cake’s fate is to be sliced partway, then stuffed with whatever appeals.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
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Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2025
Known for its modern take on South Carolina's culinary past, the restaurant focuses on elevated lowcountry and southern cuisine with dishes like red cornmeal fried oysters, lobster arancini, and lowcountry pirlou with butter-poached lobster, crab, shrimp, mussels, saffron, and more.
—Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
Scatter cold shortening cubes over the top and process until mixture looks like cornmeal, about 10 seconds.
—Kristen Browning-Blas, Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2025
Made in minutes in the skillet with only precooked cornmeal, water and salt, the corn cake’s fate is to be sliced partway, then stuffed with whatever appeals.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Cornmeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cornmeal. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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cornmeal
noun
corn·meal
ˈkȯ(ə)rn-ˈmē(ə)l 
-ˌmēl
: meal ground from corn
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