[Sca-cooks] Wondra Flour
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Nov 13 18:47:05 PST 2001
Nicolas Steenhout wrote:
> Ok,
> Everyone's talking about Wondra flour on the list for gravy. *what* is
> it? Similar to corn starch? Flour with other additives to it??? Tell me,
> please, it's bugging me :-)
Hey, I thought you said you didn't want to know...
Wondra is a commercial product ("instant gravy flour" or some such) made by gelatinizing wheat flour (or maybe wheat starch), drying the resultant goo and powdering it. It can then be reconstituted in other liquids, even cold ones, AFAIK. It's primary use is for gravies. I don't know if its thickening power is affected by heat and/or browning, as ordinary flour would be, and if there are any gluten components present they've already been formed and cooked, so lumps are unlikely.
Adamantius
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