[Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

I would discard it.  I just gave my culinary students a test called "The
White Powder Test".  It consists of 12 bags, each containing a white powder.
The first part of the test involves identifying each one, the second part is
to take a cake recipe and plug the appropriate ones into the ingredients
listed (flour, gran. sugar, powdered sugar, baking powder, salt).  Other
options in the bags include msg, dry carpet cleaner, sanitizer, sink
cleanser, etc.  Interestingly enough, everyone I've given this test to
included the dry carpet cleaner in their 'cake' mix.  The point being, you
can't tell one unlabeled white powder from the next, so keep them in
original containers if possible, and keep them labeled.  I don't think
you've got dry carpet cleaner in your canister, but at this point, how old
would it be anyway?
Christianna

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Subject: [Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet



Usually I remember to label the various canisters and bottles and things
in my cabinets, unfortunately I seem to have neglected one. I have a
canister of some substance, in the quantities that would suggest it came
in a 5-pound bag, that I can't identify. It might be rice flour. It is
very white, whiter than the unbleached white wheat flour, but I think not
quite as white as cornstarch. It is slightly granular rather than powdery.
Is there any good way for me to confirm that this is, indeed, rice flour?

Thanks!
Margaret Fitzwilliam
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