[Sca-cooks] Gum Arabic WAS parlor tricks
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Oct 25 20:10:21 PDT 2005
Vitha asked:
> For those of us uneducated, what would one use gum arabic
> for?
Well, doing a search in the Florilegium for "gum arabic" finds:
in gingerbread
as a binding agent in paints
as a binder in comfits
as a binder in writing inks
as a binder in rose beads for rosaries and other uses
in glues
in making candy
in sugar paste
Stefan
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list