How to make starch?

Experienced hostesses have long appreciated the useful properties of starch. It is used to prepare kissels, jelly, home mayonnaise and the most diverse baking. Also starch is used for washing bed linen and shirts. And if you want to keep the youth of the skin of the face, then regular masks of their starch will help you do it. How to make starch at home, described in detail in our article.

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Recipe for cooking starch from potatoes

The easiest way to cook starch is to get it out of potatoes. Cooking starch is needed from young cornflowers collected at the beginning of autumn. Potatoes should be dose, without sprouting roots and damaged by pests. One rotten fruit can spoil the whole process of cooking and benefit from such starch.

Required ingredients:

raw potatoes - 5 kg;
water boiled, cooled - 15-20 liters.

Preparing starch is better in deep container, a bucket of 10 liters is perfect. The starch composition will not depend on the bucket material, you can use both plastic and metal.

1 step - Potatoes Clean (if there are black dots on Cornklubne, they must be cut), rinse under running water;
2 step - grate potatoes on a grater or grind in a blender (you can also use a meat grinder);
3 step - crushed tubers pour 5 liters. indoor temperature and make filtering procedure (strain through a dense gauze several times);
4 Step - Potato puree squeeze and remove (potatoes will no longer need);
5 Step - Now it is necessary to work only with liquid, add 5 liters to the water. water (on top there should be white foam);
6 Step - Give water to stand for 30 minutes, a white precipitate should form at the bottom, to carry out the filtering procedure and pour starch with clean water;
7 Step - Fixing to do another 2-3 times until the water becomes clean;
8 step - as soon as the sediment increased significantly in volume, and the water after filtration became transparent, starch to move to parchment paper or foil, leave in the sun to complete drying (also starch can be dried in the oven);
9 Step - Dried Starch Grinding in a coffee grinder or manually cross the rolling pin.

The finished starch does not rush to remove into the container with the lid, move it into the deep plate and leave a couple of days on the windowsill.

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Starch from rice

Rice starch is considered the most useful, he deserves special respect in cosmetology. But not in many supermarkets of the country will meet it on sale, so it will be appropriate to prepare it at home.

Required ingredients:

krasnodar rice - 1 kg;
water - 5 liters.

Of 1 kg. Rice can get up to 900 g of natural rice starch.

1 step - in a glass jar (it is more convenient to use for 3 l.) Soak rice for 3 days, water should change daily (preferably at the same time);
2 step - at the end of the specified time, drain the water, and the wet rice is crushed to the state of the powder using a blender (also a great option - a coffee grinder);
3 Step - crushed rice pour 1.5 liters. Waters, mix thoroughly and profile (it is more convenient to use dense gauze);
4 step - all rice should be carefully crushed (whole grains will not give the desired product), so if after filtration, the cereals remained the whole, it needs to be rented in a blender;
5 step - clumsy rice leave for a couple of days in a dark place at room temperature;
6 step - after two days in the bank should form a precipitate, this is starch;
7 step - excess water to skip through the gauze, and starch dried (in the oven or in the sun);
8 step - so that the starch does not get crumpled, it needs to be raked with a rolling pin or a wooden brush.

The finished rice starch is stored in a jar with a tightly closed lid so that there is no moisture access.