What Is Cornstarch, and How Is It Used in Cooking? First, let's get a better understanding of what exactly cornstarch is and how it behaves when cooked. Cornstarch is made from the endosperm of corn ...

Cornstarch may not be the most exciting ingredient, but it's utterly essential in so many recipes — from thickening stir-fries to keeping a cheesecake creamy and baking up a fruit pie. So there’s ...

There’s nothing worse than a thin sauce or a watery stew, but such undesirable outcomes can happen to the best of us, which is why the kitchen gods have blessed us with cornstarch—a magical powder ...

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Cornstarch is a mostly flavorless powder that's used commercially in products like baby powder and cosmetics and in food as a thickening agent. As a classic example of a refined carbohydrate, ...

Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Rounding out the quartet of recipes shared by Steven Long, these butter cookies are sure to hit the spot when ...

There’s hot cocoa, and then there’s hot chocolate. These terms are used interchangeably, but arguably there’s a difference. Hot cocoa is more like steaming-hot chocolate milk, made from one’s favorite ...