Name: To Make Flour Paste
Ingredients: 1 cup wheaten flour; 1 cup water; optional: powdered resin (¼ cup for stronger paste); optional: gum arabic or size (as needed)

To Make Flour Paste

Ingredients

1 cup wheaten flour
1 cup water
optional: powdered resin (¼ cup for stronger paste)
optional: gum arabic or size (as needed)

Directions

Boil water in a saucepan.
Gradually add flour to the boiling water, stirring continuously.
Cook until the mixture becomes glutinous and thick.
For stronger paste, mix in powdered resin or gum arabic as desired.

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.