Fmn Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 How chilled out am I. Sitting here on Christmas day with the turkey sizzling and the family watching junk tv. Anyway - what do I use farine de mais for? I mistakenly bought it thinking it might be cornflour in the English sense. Although it has made a lovely cheese sauce, it obviously isn't the same. What do I look for to buy the cornflour that we would buy in England, and now I have a kilo of the farine de mais - what can I do with that? I'm a quarter of a bottle of floc down and feeling very well. By the way - floc (red) would make a very acceptable substitute for sherry for the trifle. It certainly does in the glass. Merry ChristmasFran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesLauriers Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 If you want corn flour, buy 'Ma?zena'.BTW I'm about six glasses (lost count) of Champagne down plus oysters & Foie Gras pate on brioche toasts - Beef Welligton is just about to go in the oven (no turkeys here thanks!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Heard people talking about this recently, they were saying you shouldn't use Maizena because it's GM.If it worries you, you can use potato starch instead for thickening purposes. Is that the Perles de Japon stuff, or is that something else again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Potatoe starch is fecule de pomme de terre, wonderful in a gateau savoyarde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pucette<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pucette<FONT><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Qui ne connaît pas la campagne lhiver, ne connaît pas la campagne et ne connaît pas Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 perles de japon = tapioca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 LOL, there are limits to GM avoidance!!But they're in those tiny little boxes, surely that wouldn't make a hearty pudding to feed a growing family on a cold winter's day? Do you know what they use them for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 One little box makes a big pan full of tapioca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pucette<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pucette<FONT><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Qui ne connaît pas la campagne lhiver, ne connaît pas la campagne et ne connaît pas Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Absolutely. Or frogspawn as we called it at school.Some people put a little bit in soup to thicken it.I bought some once for the latter purpose, having seen a tempting recipe, but recognised them just in time to think better of it. Several years later I fed the entire contents of the small box to some chickens who appeared to be delighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 [quote]How chilled out am I. Sitting here on Christmas day with the turkey sizzling and the family watching junk tv. Anyway - what do I use farine de mais for? I mistakenly bought it thinking it might be ...[/quote]Cornflour is Fleur de Mais. comes in small packets as it does in the UK and often but not always under the Maizena brand name but be careful because there are other products from Maizena that look similar.Liz (29) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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