[Sca-cooks] What kind of gum do I have?

[Gretchen M Beck]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 28-Oct-101 [Sca-cooks] What
kind of gu.. by "Robin Carroll-Mann"@ear
> Anyone know what this is, and what it's good for?  The clerk at the
> counter could not tell me.  I'm hoping it's gum tragacanth, but I
> know there are several kinds of edible gum.

Could be, although the gum tragacanth I've got looks more like dry
library paste ground into a powder.  What you're describing sounds more
like Gum Arabic to me.

toodles, margaret