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

[Micheal]

  Well now there is an interesting story some other time for that but. 
Different grains react differently to water because of types , amounts, and 
quality of glutens . Without any further description as to what she had 
found and a lack of thought for a second. I went to an old bakers tale which 
works if you really know your  flour.
  But it is better to be sure then take chances,  like Christiana says dump 
and get new. White carpet cleaner I suspect would become a paste not unlike 
cornstarch or worse like flour.  Solid point well made and sorry for any 
misgivings
 Da
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From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP: Mystery flour-like substance in my cabinet


> Da commented:
>> > Drops of water .
>> > Da
>>
>>   I will elaborate some.
>
> Good. Considering the season, I was wondering if you baptizing the flour 
> or something. :-) "Go forth and be rice flour", "Go forth and be 
> cornstarch". :-)
>
>>   I take it you have worked with flour , rice flower , and cornstarch.
>> So it
>> would follow that you should know how each reacts with water. Tasting
>> could
>> be unsafe as your unsure what you have. There are other methods but
>> drops of water ranks right up there.
>
> Okay, Margaret may know how these react differently to water, but although 
> I have used flour and cornstarch, and I think have some rice flour in the 
> cabinet, I didn't realize they reacted to a few drips of water differently 
> enough to notice. How do they react differently. I may have to just go try 
> this, but I'm not quite sure what I will be looking for. All of these act 
> as thickeners, right?
>
> Since this powder is unlikely to be something unedible, such as detergent 
> or some such, since it was apparently stored in a food cabinet, is there 
> any reason a small taste would hurt you? I'm not sure this would help with 
> this question though, unless the powder is powdered sugar or salt.
>
> Stefan
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