[Sca-cooks] Re: Eat like a King

[Angie Malone]

At 07:37 AM 4/7/2003 -0400, you 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

I think it was a UK production, but not sure.  I assumed when they said
cornstarch they were talking about some other grain starch since I knew
when other books said corn, they meant grain, not maize.

I remembered what they said they used cornstarch in, to thicken the
blancmange.

         Angeline