Dishes with starch - 414 cooking recipes

If you rub starch between your fingertips, it will squeak. This is how starch can be distinguished from powdered sugar, flour, or soda, which is so similar to it. If starch is dissolved in hot water, it will dissolve, swell and turn into a paste. This property of starch is actively used in cooking for preparing all kinds of dishes, including jelly and jelly. If starch is added to cookie or cake dough, the finished product will have a special sandy taste (sandy means crumbly, not “tastes like sand”). When starch enters the stomach, it is digested, hydrolyzed and becomes glucose. Glucose is completely absorbed by the human body. Molasses (artificial honey) is also prepared from starch. Starch is not only used for food, it is also used in industry. For example, in the textile industry, fabrics are treated with starch. At home, starch is often used for bed linen or white shirts. Starched laundry becomes pleasantly “crispy”, more dense. The most famous types of starch are corn starch and potato starch. Sometimes starch is made from potatoes at home. This practice usually takes place in areas where the population grows large quantities of potatoes on their own. For example, in Siberia.