"Janet B" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:34:23 -0700, isw > wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> Sqwertz > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 20:12:49 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> > "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>> > ...
>>> >> On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:32:28 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> I did try looking but came up empty. Do you know of another brand of
>>> >>> flour
>>> >>> like Wondra? It is a cooked flour, perfect for making gravy and
>>> >>> sauce. No
>>> >>> need to make a slurry. Can dump it straight in. Never any lumps.
>>> >>
>>> >> It is not cooked. And you don't need it. You'd hate it and
>>> >> eventually just throw it away.
>>> >
>>> > Yes it is cooked.
>>> >
>>> > http://bakingbites.com/2008/05/what-is-wondra-flour/
>>> >
>>> > Says it is essentially cooked already.
>>>
>>> Wondra flour is a modified wheat flour starch made from treating it
>>> with an acid, usually hydrochloric acid. Of course they don't
>>> advertise that because people get freaked out when they know their
>>> food has been treated with acid (as Braggs Liquid Aminos has learned).
>>>
>>> If Wondra was cooked then it wouldn't have been the subject of the
>>> current e-coli flour recall. Steaming temperatures (as the above
>>> website claims) would easily kill e-Coli in milliseconds - well before
>>> steaming temperatures were reached. But acid treatments don't kill
>>> e-coli. That is why e-coli survives in - and passes through - your
>>> stomach. Which is full of acid. And that is why Wondra has been
>>> recalled.
>>>
>>> My store used to carry both the canister and the box of Wondra but
>>> they were not there today. Any half-moron should be able to make fine
>>> gravy using AP flour and corn starch. You don't need Wondra.
>>
>>"Need"??, No, but it sure is handy when that sauce you've already made
>>just didn't tighten up the way you expected ...
>>
>>Isaac
>
> did you know that you can mix a paste of soft butter and flour and put
> that into the sauce to thicken it? The paste easily blends into the
> sauce and will not lump.
> Janet US

Sure I do. And then what? Wait for the butter to kick in and send me flying
to the bathroom in agony? I can't eat butter. And did you notice the fact
that I said that you don't need to make a slurry with the Wondra? You do
know what a slurry is...right?