Flour Starch
Ingredients
Directions
Mix 3 tablespoons of flour with a little cold water until smooth.
Pour boiling water over the mixture and stir until it thickens.
Use as a starch for laundry.
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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