CONSTITUENTS OF THE CARROT.These are crystallizable and uncrystallizable sugar, a little starch, extractive, gluten, albumen, volatile oil, vegetable jelly, or pectin, saline matter, malic acid, and a peculiar crystallizable ruby-red neuter principle, without odour or taste, called carotin.

The starch paste will rapidly become thinner, and gradually change into soluble starch, in a perfectly fluid solution.

Make a thin paste from pure starch or arrowroot.

The pancreatic juice converts the starch into grape-sugar, even acting upon raw starch.

The fluid pulp is carried by means of a helix, i, to a revolving perforated drum at e. From this, the milky starch flows into the jacket, N, while the pulp (ligneous fibers) makes its exit from the apparatus through the aperture, n, and falls into the reservoir, o.

Sixty pounds of potatoes, yielding eight pounds of dry starch, will produce seven and a half pounds of sugar.

(If the laundry starch has had anything added to it, such as salt, lard, oil, bluing, it must not be used for this purpose.)

Add powdered dry starch to cold water.

The principal starches used for finishing cotton fabrics are potato (farina), wheat, Indian corn (maize), rice, tapioca, arrowroot, sago; the last three not so often as those previously named.

Use a little pure talcum powder or dry sifted corn starch under the arms and in the groin to prevent chafing.

When about half way on his short aquatic journey, M. turned his head and looked back, and then he saw at the end of the quay, just where he had left him, the tall African standing starch and motionless, like a granite statue before an Egyptian temple.

Boil this thin starch a few minutes, until it thickens, stirring constantly that no lumps be formed.

The outer husk being toughest, will be the least affected, the nitrogenous or glutenous portion will be much finer, while the brittle starch will be reduced to powder.

Their habit-shirts, chitterlings, and cravats, though trimmed with Trawlee lace, seemed by their colour to evince that yellow starch, put out of fashion by the ruff of the murderous Mrs. Turner in England, was still to be had in Ireland.

" You see, he had not entirely washed out of himself the ceremonious starch of Hapsburg.

It contains about 75 per cent of water, about 20 per cent of carbohydrates, chiefly starch, 2 per cent of proteids, and a little fat and saline matters.

Use a cupful of ordinary cooked starch to a gallon of water.

Pastry flour having less gluten and slightly more starch is more suitable for pastry and cake mixtures and is used wherever softness and lightness are desired.

hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof.