What's the difference between cornstarch, starch, clarified flour, semolina, custard powder and bread flour?
In Chinese food is the starch, stir-fry for thickening, sizing, etc., there are a variety of, such as sweet potato starch, Sichuan cuisine used in the water bean flour, and corn starch, etc. Powder is starch, there can be many kinds of, generally refers to the corn starch thickening of the academic concept is: by means of the starch in the case of pasteurization in the presence of heat, with the absorption of water, adhesion, and smooth and moist characteristics. When the dishes are close to maturity, the adjusted powder juice is poured into the pot to make the marinade thick and thick, increase the adhesion of the marinade to the raw materials, thus increasing the powder and concentration of the dish soup and improving the color and flavor of the dishes. Cheng flour Introduction: Cheng flour is also known as clarified noodles, clarified flour, ting flour, wheat starch. It is a kind of gluten-free flour, composed of wheat. It can be used to make various kinds of dim sum such as shrimp dumplings, vermicelli, and intestinal noodles. It is processed flour that is rinsed with water to separate the gluten from other substances in the flour, and the gluten becomes gluten, and what is left is clarified flour. Clarifying flour Nutritional analysis: added to the flour it can play the role of gluten, pescetarian, it contains high protein, also known as plant meat, can be fried gluten bubbles, as a vegetarian delicacy. Wheat flour ("Compendium") synonym wheat flour ("Food Therapy Materia Medica"). Source for wheat bran after washing gluten starch precipitation. Sexual flavor "Compendium": "Sweet, cool, non-toxic." Categorized as "Materia Medica Summary": "Entering the Taiyin and Syncopal meridians of the hands and feet." Functions and Indications ① "Food Therapy Materia Medica": "tonifying the middle and benefiting qi, and the five viscera, regulating the meridians, renewing the qi veins; and fried powder, and service to break dysentery. And the nature of the Lord's fracture, and vinegar steamed, wrapped in the injured place to make sure that the heavy steam wrapped again." ② "Compendium": "Vinegar boiled into a paste, eliminating all carbuncles and swellings, soup and fire injuries." Selection of all carbuncles and swellings hair back, anonymous swellings and poison, the first heat of the inflammation has not been a spice powder, powdered, light yellow or light orange, with a strong milky and fruity flavor, the Department of fluffing agents, stabilizers, food flavors, food coloring, milk powder, starch and filler combination. Custard powder was originally used in western cuisine mainly for making pastries and puddings, and was later introduced by Hong Kong chefs for use in Chinese cooking. Custard powder is easy to dissolve, suitable for soft, fragrant, smooth hot and cold desserts (such as cakes, egg rolls, buns, bread, egg tarts and other pastries in), mainly to take its special aroma and flavor, is a more ideal food spice powder. Custard powder has four major advantages: one is to increase the aroma, can make products produce a strong milky and fruity flavor; the second is to increase the color, adding custard powder in the paste can produce a bright yellow; three is to increase the crispy and can make the products shaped, in the puffed category of the paste by adding custard powder, after frying the products are crispy and not soft and shriveled, the form of a beautiful; four is to enhance the viscous and slippery, thickening of some dishes by adding custard powder can produce a viscous and slippery with a good thickening effect and thickening of the product. Good thickening effect and the transparency of the gravy good bread flour, made of hard wheat, high gluten content, generally controlled between 32.5 ~ 34.0%. Good gluten quality, toughness, elasticity, blowing bubble volume. Foreign countries have developed to white bread special powder, hamburger special powder, fried bread special powder.