Welcome to Kitchen Queries, where the nigella.com team will answer your cooking or food related questions.  We’d love you to submit some of your recipe problems, dilemmas or queries for us to get our teeth into!

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• Cornmeal for muffins - what can I use instead?

  I want to make the blueberry muffins in Nigella's Kitchen book and it calls for cornmeal. I'm in Australia and I have not been able to find this in the supermarket. Is it called something else in Australia?

  Posted by elisegoura. Answered on 10th Mar 2011 at 12.30

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• The big forks used to move meat to carving tray

  I'm trying to find these but for the life of me I don't know what they called so my searchs keep coming up empty. What are the known as????

  Posted by farm56. Answered on 10th Mar 2011 at 12.00

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• Red Velvet Cake - red food colour

  I am making the Red Velvet Cake from Nigella's Kitchen book for my sisters birthday cake. However, I was not able to get the red food colouring paste which she recommends, I could only get the spectral paste concentrate from Sugarflair. How should I adapt the recipe to incorporate it?

  Posted by LYNDS28. Answered on 9th Mar 2011 at 12.00

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