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Welcoem back to my corner of the hive, join me as I walk you through this little adventure of mine.😊🤗
Over A week ago, I wanted to prepare some milk balls, and a part of the recipe happened to be cornstarch. Instead of heading to the store to make a purchase, I decided I should make mine, why not? It is cheaper, like my Mom always says, every Cent saved matters and more importantly, I can be sure of the hygiene of the process.
Uses of cornstarch
Cornstarch can be used in various food recipes, such as adding it as a thickener for soups, used in milk balls, and more.
Aside from using it in cooking, there are a lot more other ways one can use cornstarch that I found while searching the Internet according to this site these and more are some corn starch uses.
You can treat your pet to dry birth by using cornstarch, brush a small amount on its fur and then brushing it off afterward. It helps to get rid of any oily smell on their skin.
Remove grease splatter from walls. Add cornstarch to a small cloth and rub the grease gently until it comes off.
Without further bustle, here is the whole process that was involved.
Material used:
Ten cups of yellow corn, one can also use white corn. But I have a thing for yellow corn, I love the taste better, so yellow corn it is.
I bought my corn from the local market, ten cups. Picked the dirt out and washed it thoroughly, Then soaked it with clean water inside a bowl for three days. The corn was very dry and hard, it had to take three days long for it to be soft for easy grinding otherwise, two days would have been enough.
After three days, I drained the water, raised it with another water, added another fresh water, and headed out to grind it from the meal grinder near my house.
I put a cheesecloth inside a half-filled pale of water and filter out the shaft.
Here is the shaft after raising it three times with water to get all the starch out.
I allowed the starch to settle under the water for three hours.
Remove the excess water at the top, then proceed to strain out the little water mixed with the starch by pouring it back inside the cheesecloth, tying it, and leaving it for two hours for the water to drip out as much as possible.
I put a small bowl under the bucket before putting the tied starch inside to avoid it soaking back the water, then leave it to drip out.
I pour out the starch inside a tray and spread it across as much as I could, then put it under the sun for it to dry
Thanks to the harmattan, it dried up after just twelve hours. If the weather were to be more moist, it would have taken one or two days to dry up. When I scope the starch, and mesh it together I have this👇
I proceed to use my grinder to grind it into fine, smooth powder.
I shivered it with a fine shiver to remove any form of hard particles left in it.
And I have my nice-looking, very smooth, and well-dried cornstarch
Since it is well-dried it can last as much as six months once it is kept inside an airtight jar.
With my cornstarch available at home, we are going to be enjoying milk balls frequently 😊😅.
Thank you a lot for visiting my blog and for your support, I wish you a productive week ahead.
@funshee✍
