SC - Re: Sugar Questions
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Wed Jul 8 08:39:20 PDT 1998
THLRenata at aol.com wrote:
>
> Ok, so I'm revealing my culinary illiteracy -- but what *is* amydon?
>
> Renata
Amidon, amydoun, (amulum in Latin) is a finely ground wheat starch, used
largely for thickening pottages in a lot of medieval cookery. It is made
from soft wheat, soaked in several changes of water, finely ground, and,
I think, soaked again in a large bowl. The starch precipitates out, is
dried, and ground again to a powder. It probably did contain some
residual amounts of protein, so wasn't strictly pure starch, but it
tended to be made from low-protein wheats, so amydoun behaves
differently from regular flour. It's more, well, like starch.
Adamantius
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