starch

How To Use starch In A Sentence

• Don't iron clothes that are to be stored, and keep them away from starch. Times, Sunday Times
• Cooking the potatoes with their skins on protects the starch granules, reducing the gumminess. HOW TO MAKE FLUFFY, "BUTTERY", NO-FAT VEGAN MASHED POTATOES
• The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
• “Malted” barley is barley which is starting to germinate — a process that converts the starch in the kernels into a soluble form called dextrin. Archive 2006-01-01
• Waxy starch gels form a paste at lower temperatures, swell with more water than regular or partially waxy starches, and don't lose water during freezing and thawing.
• His boots creaked at every step, his starched uniform crackled and a sourish smell of sweat and leather became noticeable. Autumn
• The entire process is known as the gelatinisation of starch and is very important in cooking.
• The tabbouleh will be the starch, so pasta is out. Archive 2006-01-01
• Similarly, in freesia florets the increase in perianth sugars was more than 10 times higher than the decrease in starch content.
• The ability of snails to hydrolyze plant polysaccharides xylan, mannan, starch and cellulose as well as chitin, an animal and fungal polysaccharide, is probably an indication of their omnivorous diet. Archive 2006-04-01