Arepa Flour
© Copyright 2010. Do not copy. All rights reserved and enforced.Arepa Flour is a refined, pre-cooked corn flour ("harina de maiz refinada, precocida".) It is not the same as the masa harina that is used in Mexico; for Arepa Flour, large-kerneled corn is used that has large, starchy endosperms, making for a starchier flour than that which is used for tortillas.
There are white and yellow varieties of the flour, because the corn used may be yellow or white.
In the traditional process of making the flour by hand, the corn was boiled in water containing lime (the chemical, not the fruit) to loosen the hulls, then drained, placed in a large wooden bowl, moistened if the time between that boiling step and this one was long, and pounded with a wooden mallet until the hulls (with the attached germ) came off the kernels. Then swished in water to wash the hulls away. What was left of the kernels was then cooked, then ground (while still wet) to make it into a dough. The dough was used straight-away. If you wanted to store the ground-up kernels instead, you would dry it into a flour.
For commercial makes the corn is hulled dry. The hull is first removed from the seed, as well as the germ. Then the kernels are cooked, ground, dried and packaged.
Arepa Flour is sometimes referred to as a "pregelatinized" flour because the grain has been cooked first.
See Also: Arepas, Masa Harina
Other entries for: Corn Flours
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