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Dried Flour

A method for drying flour to use as a thickener.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Dried Flour

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place 1 cup of flour in a cotton bag.

  2. Submerge the bag in a dish of cold water.

  3. Boil for 10 hours, adding more water as needed.

  4. Remove the hard lump of flour and dry it in the sun or a drying oven.

  5. Once dry, grate the flour to use as a thickener.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the starch base that is cooked into a hard lump and later grated as a thickener.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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