Meaning
Ground corn (maize) meal — a versatile staple used for creamy cornmeal porridge (a breakfast favourite), savoury 'turn cornmeal', dukunu, and pone. Cheap, filling, and nourishing, cornmeal has fed Jamaican households for generations, sweet with milk and nutmeg or savoury with saltfish.
Examples
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Cook a pot a cornmeal porridge fi breakfast.
Cook a pot of cornmeal porridge for breakfast.
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Turn di cornmeal till it thick an smooth.
Stir the cornmeal until it's thick and smooth.
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Sweeten di cornmeal wid nutmeg an condensed milk.
Sweeten the cornmeal with nutmeg and condensed milk.
Origin
Ground corn/maize; a staple of Jamaican porridges, puddings, and dumplings.
How it’s used
Ground corn for porridge, turn cornmeal, dukunu, pone. See [[turn-cornmeal]], [[peanut-porridge]], [[dukunu]].