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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach ekoogler1 at comcast.net:
>And to add another anecdote...When Phillip and I were first dating, 
>he came to my apartment for a weekend.  It was cold and rainy, so we 
>decided to make some beef stew.  Well, we got it to the point where 
>we wanted to thicken it, so we added cornstarch.  But, oddly enough, 
>it didn't get any thicker.  Then he tasted it.  What we were adding 
>was confectioners' sugar!  Boy, that was the sweetest beef stew 
>around.  A couple of weekends later, we were at his apartment and he 
>decided to make funnel cakes.  He got them all fried up and ready to 
>eat.  We sprinkled Confectioners' sugar on them and bit in.  Ugh. 
>It turned out to be cornstarch.  So we both learned to label 
>stuff....
>
>Kiri

Ah, yes. Like the brownies I made with my wife's Cantonese 
deep-frying batter mix. Great brownies, with just a hint of ginger 
and garlic...

Adamantius
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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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