[Sca-cooks] Starch in cooking

Alec Story avs38 at cornell.edu
Sun Nov 13 08:12:32 PST 2016


Purified starch can be prepared from grain.  I have some Chinese recipes
for it, intended for use in cosmetics and fine food, but I suspect you'll
want something more Western.

On Nov 13, 2016 10:25 AM, "Susan Lord" <lordhunt at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Anon Al-Andalus recipe 469, translated by Perry/Friedman as an
> "Eastern Sweet" calls for starch. What does that mean in layman terms? All
> I can think of are ridiculous items like a throw in a potato or spray it
> with my starch can used when ironing. . .
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