Put the starch into a tolerably large basin; pour over it the cold water, and stir the mixture well with a wooden spoon until it is perfectly free from lumps, and quite smooth.

There is a preliminary storage of starch in the liver, and of fat throughout the fat depots of the body.

The starch of barley approaches in many properties to cellulose, and is, therefore, less digestible.

" About a fortnight after this, when the July sun was at its zenith and the starch out of everything animate and inanimate, old man Kapus came up to the ranch-house.

When bread is taken out of the oven, it is full of moisture; the starch is held together in masses, and the bread, instead of being crusted so as to expose each grain of starch to the saliva, actually prevents their digestion by being formed by the teeth into leathery poreless masses, which lie on the stomach like so many bullets.

It is, by washing, procured as a starch from the tree, then dried, either in the sun or on plates of hot iron, and afterwards broken into grains, in which form it is imported into this country.

Boil a little starch with water; if there is enough starch it sets on cooling and a paste results.

All this time his housekeeper, Goody Blount, as he called her, in her lace cap and ruffles, as precise and starch as an old picture, stood behind his chair with pleased solemnity, directing, with unruffled composure, the movements of the liveried bumpkin who this day was promoted to the honour of 'waiting at table.

The undecayed bases of the old stipes are also packed with starch for the same purpose.

* * STARCHES FOR THE FINISHING OF COTTON FABRICS.

With regard to the iodine reaction of starch, Brukner contests Sachsse's view as to the loss of color of iodide of starch at a high temperature.

In bread-making, the alcohol and carbonic acid gas produced during the fermentation, are formed from sugar,that originally contained in the flour and the additional quantity formed from starch during the fermenting process.

The paraffin starch on his shirt front and collar and cuffs gave to them the appearance and consistency of celluloidit being the intention of his old laundress to make him indeed the stiffest and most highly polished gentleman of his high world.

It is possible that the surgeon may be found making starch over the kitchen fire, because there is nobody at hand who understands how to make starched bandages; or he may be at the desk, casting up columns of figures, or writing returns, when he is urgently wanted at the bedside.

My coat, cut in the jemmy fashion, I buttoned to suffocation; but 'pon honour, believe me, sir, no stays, and my shirt neck had been starched per order, to the consistence of tin.

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