If you rub starch between your fingertips, it will squeak. That's how you can tell starch apart from powdered sugar, flour, or baking soda, which look so much like it.
If you dissolve starch in hot water, it will dissolve, swell, and turn into a paste. This property of starch is actively used in cooking to make all sorts of dishes, including:
kissels
and
jelly
. If you add starch to
cookie dough
or cake, the finished product will get a special short taste ("short" meaning crumbly, not "tasting like sand")).
When starch enters the stomach, it's digested, hydrolyzed, and becomes glucose. Glucose is completely absorbed by the human body. Molasses (artificial honey) is also made from starch.
Starch is used not only as food but also in industry. In the textile industry, for example, fabrics are treated with starch. At home, starch is often used for bed linens or white shirts. Starched linen becomes pleasantly "crisp" and denser.
The most famous varieties of starch are
corn starch
and
potato starch
. Sometimes starch is made at home
from potatoes
. This practice usually takes place in regions where the population grows a large amount of potatoes themselves. In Siberia, for example.
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