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gluten-free baking, harlequin author, inspirational author, love inspired author, making potato starch
Potato starch probably doesn’t factor into your life very much, and that’s a good thing. Because if you know about the baking potential of potato starch, it’s because you’re riddled with allergies like me.
My name is Patricia Johns, and I’m riddled with allergies. Gluten, dairy and soy, to be precise. All the good stuff.
So in an attempt to start my own gluten-free baking (which won’t exactly save me money, but will at least make some edible bread possible), I realized that I needed to procure potato starch.
Now, this is not the place to learn how to make potato starch. You can learn here or here. But in researching how to make it, I realized that potato starch is some precious substance. It’s like getting the milk of a lactating mouse. It takes a lot of potatoes and a lot of patience to get a very small amount of starch.
This is the starch taken from four fairly large potatoes. (You’re looking for the whitish substance on the bottom of the plate. And that’s a salad plate.)
So this week while not writing, this is what I’m doing–making potato starch. I feel strangely victorious after having milked a potato. 😉
What an interesting post…When I saw the headline, I thought I was going to read that you had discovered a “family” of little creatures vacationing in your backyard (smile).
LOL! No, no mice here… Thankfully. I tend to find them cute and get attached to them, which would probably result in them chewing the wires and burning down my home. 😉
That’s got to be something that can go on your resume 😉
LOL! Back when I used to work other jobs, I’d include “novelist” on my resume. It confused people doing the hiring, because what does novel writing have to do with selling furniture/being a bank teller/being a store manager? Nothing, but it got me interviews out of pure curiosity! “Potato milker” might have the same effect. 😉