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A Good Paste

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Make a paste with the flour.

  2. Boil the paste for a longer time than you would for starch until it is thick and well cooked.

  3. While boiling, add the powdered alum.

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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