[Sca-cooks] Starch was Turkish delight

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And purely by chance I now find one from Arnaud de Villeneuve (13th c) for  
an alternate thickener in blancmange.
 
Jim  Chevallier
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In a message dated 2/1/2014 5:14:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
t.d.decker at att.net writes:

The  earliest written reference to starch as a noun I've encountered  is:

"starche, for kyrcheys"

Galfridus Anglicus, Promptorium  parvulorum sive clericorum: dictionarius 
anglo-latinus princeps,  1440