Help! What can I use instead of polenta?

[emsiewill]

I have a recipe for a delicious orange cake, for which I need polenta or cornmeal.

As I live in gritty urban S Wales - ie nowhere near Waitrose , I cannot get hold of either (well, only ready made polenta, which is not really the same thing).

I made a special trip to Sainsburys and in my desperation bought some semolina. I have done some googling, and think it might be OK.

Can anyone tell me one way or the other? It's such a delicious recipe, I would love to make it, but don't want to end up with a disaster on my hands...

anyone?!?

OK, well I'm going to go for it using the semolina and I will blame you all if it goes wrong...

Semolina should work ok, but you might nt get quite the crunchy texture you would with cornmeal. It'll still taste ymmmy though - report back?

Ah! Thank you. I shall of course report back.

Well, it's in the oven now...time will tell.