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> maxine wrote:
This recipe calls for potato starch and I have potato flour. I need to pick
up potato starch for a bread recipe, so I will bake this later.

>> Potato flour is the term used in England. It's the same thing as>>
>> potato starch.
>>
>
> Maxine, I just checked the Food Dictionary on epicurious.com and you are >
> 100% correct. I am cooking gluten-free, some of the recipes have potato
> starch or potato flour, and one recipe tells me not to substitute the >
> other. lol Now I find out, they are the same thing. Sometimes I laugh >
> at me. :-)

Have a laugh at the rest of those who insist that web page is right. Web
articles are only as good as the mind that created them. I was checking out
info on fruitarians this AM. You would not believe the nutty stuff that's
written!

There is only one potato starch sold in Italy and it is called fecola. It's
used quite widely in homes.