To Make Potato Starch
Ingredients
Directions
Pare and grate the raw potatoes.
Place the pulp in a strainer.
Pour cold water over the pulp several times, catching the water in a vessel underneath.
Once settled, turn off the water and let the sediment dry completely to obtain starch.
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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