雜貨舖THE GROCER
Cornflour
豆粉
埋芡上漿
A fine white starch, slaked with water to thicken. A Cantonese kitchen uses it for one other job as well: rubbing pork tripe or intestine with starch and coarse salt, which is what strips the mucus off.
TCM properties
Nature · neutral Flavour · sweet Meridians · spleen、stomach
Traditional food therapy
A cooking material rather than a food-therapy ingredient.
Cautions: read first
- Slake it in cold water before it goes in; straight into hot liquid it seizes into lumps.
Preparation
Mix one part starch to two parts cold water.
Origin
Mostly milled locally in Australia, with Chinese and Thai imports at Asian grocers. In the supermarket baking aisle and at Asian grocers
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
Australian name · cornflour / potato starch
Where · Any supermarket (corn flour); Asian grocers (Tung Chun potato starch)
Where · Any supermarket (corn flour); Asian grocers (Tung Chun potato starch)
