Corn flour comes from Italy and belongs to corn food, which is often sold in western food stores. Corn starch is divided into refined corn flour and ordinary corn flour. The former is also called eagle chestnut powder, which is often used in cooking, while the latter is often used in wowotou, corn flour and so on. Corn flour can be eaten hot or cold. Generally, corn flour is eaten by pouring heated milk into corn flour and stirring evenly, then adding a little salt and sprinkling some white pepper and stirring evenly.
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The difference between corn flour and corn starch
In fact, corn flour and corn starch are the same. Generally speaking, corn starch is also called corn flour, corn flour, corn flour and raw flour, and in some areas it is called bean flour. Both corn flour and corn starch can be used as thickeners when cooking, in order to help the texture of ingredients become softer and smoother in the future.
When making cakes or stirring batter, or adding appropriate amount of corn starch to flour. In addition, adding some corn starch into flour according to a certain proportion can be used as a substitute for cake powder, thus reducing the gluten of flour and making the cake softer.
How to make a cake with corn flour
Green qianceng cake
Ingredients: glutinous rice flour 300g, corn flour 600g, coconut milk (large) 4 cans, proper amount of pigment/folium isatidis juice, sugar 300g, and proper amount of crude oil.
Production method:
1. Mix sticky rice flour, corn flour and coconut milk into coconut milk, and divide it into several equal parts according to the number of layers.
2. The first coconut milk is the primary color, and no pigment is added.
3. Add pigment to the second layer of coconut milk powder, so that the color will increase a little for each layer, and the color will be the darkest when the last layer is made.
4. Coat a square vessel with oil, pour in the first primary color coconut milk, and steam for 5 minutes on high fire.
5. Pour the second layer of pulp and steam for 5 minutes, so steam each layer for 5 minutes until the end.