[Sca-cooks] Starch in cooking

[Johnna Holloway]

Wheat starch and corn or maize starch both are on the import list of products here. See
http://www.allchile.net/chileforum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9702&p=112178&hilit=Wheat+starch#p112178

http://www.allchile.net/chileforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10684&p=125649&hilit=Corn+starch#p125649

You may have to use corn or maize starch if you cannot locate wheat or rice starch. 

Johnnae
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> On Nov 13, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote: snipped
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> Corn flour is often used in England to denote grain starch (often amydon), while corn starch is American English for starch from maize.
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> Bear
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> Susan wrote--
> I am still not getting it. When I go to the supermarket, what can I buy as an equivalent of starch or can I just spray on the starch from my laundry room? - Don’t like the latter as forefathers didn’t have spray cans in the Middle Ages. . . The supermarket catalogue does not list starch/amidon. I see that maizena is cornstarch but I assume that is from corn on the cob which did not exist in 13th century Spain? I see I have Tapioca flour but that is not starch - no?
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