[Sca-cooks] First Recipe from Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco, in parts
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Fri Feb 12 13:10:31 PST 2010
> > Antonia di Benedetto Calvo <dama.antonia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nnnnoooo.
>>
>> Corn flour is from maize (ie, what N. Americans call corn starch).
>> "Wheaten corn flour" is wheat starch.
>
>I've never seen corn flour made from maize (although I haven't
>looked all that hard). Ask an Australian coeliac how hard it is to
>find cornflour that isn't made from wheat...
In the U.S., "corn starch" is made from maize; in American English
"corn" means "maize." It's much more commonly available than wheat
starch.
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David/Cariadoc
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