[Sca-cooks] Re: Eat like a King

[johnna holloway]

I thought the cornstarch was for the modern version.
The recipes on the Food network don't call for cornstarch.
I'd have to replay the tape and see what this was in reference to.

Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis

"Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:

> Also sprach Terry Decker:
> >  >Cornstarch was used to make (oops I can't remember how they phrased the
> >>rest)perhaps for confections.
> >
> >Cornstarch appears to be a fairly modern thing.  If starch were called for
> >in Henry's time, I would expect to see wheat starch or a fine rice flour.
> >This is probably a modern adaptation.
>
> This is an American production? If it were done in, or written by
> someone from, the UK, I wonder if perhaps they said "cornflour",
> which today may mean cornstarch (i.e. starch processed from maize) or
> any other grain starch used similarly. Or are we talking specifically
> of cornstarch-from-maize being used in the Americas?
>
> Alternately, could some American be interpreting a statement made in
> the dialect of the UK, about cornflour, as evidence of maize starch
> use in period?
>
> Adamantius
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