[Sca-cooks] First Recipe from Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco, in parts

Antonia di Benedetto Calvo dama.antonia at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 22:45:52 PST 2010


Arianwen ferch Arthur wrote:
> (Too) many years ago, when I was first teaching, I taught in Australia and there I had to work with recipes for corn starch, (American corn = maize so I have always thought of corn starch as made from maize) There, however I discovered that "corn" is like cereal  the edible seeds of cultivated grasses and that corn starch there was made from wheat...
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Nnnnoooo.

Corn flour is from maize (ie, what N. Americans call corn starch).  
"Wheaten corn flour" is wheat starch.

What do you mean "recipes for corn starch"?

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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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