fecula

The fecula is the substance of bread, pastry and purees of all kinds.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

The two varieties of the Cassava afford a very superior fecula, which is imported under the name of Brazilian arrowroot. 8,354 bags of tapioca and farina were imported from Maranham in 1834.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

The roots of those which are perennial contain, besides fecula, which is their base, a resinous, acrid, and bitter principle.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

The roots of those which are perennial contain, besides fecula, which is their base, a resinous, acrid, and bitter principle.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

They beat this water for an hour, and then leave it to deposit the colouring fecula, which is of an intense brick-red.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

They beat this water for an hour, and then leave it to deposit the colouring fecula, which is of an intense brick-red.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The fecula is the substance of bread, pastry and purees of all kinds.

The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790

Two men, standing on this beam, with a handspike fixed to the long beam, alternately plunge the open buckets right and left, thus churning the liquid until it begins to show a blue fecula, which is produced by small quantities drawn from the lime cask. "

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

Extraction of the tingeing fecula of vegetables rendered more minutely divided by admixture with salino-aequous fluids with which the pores of the subjects to be dyed are to be impregnated and therein fixed as much as possible by such bodies as are known to be greatly astringent particularly those which precipitate the fecula from their dissolved state in fluids not unlike the manner by which Lakes are prepared for the painter.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The engineer constructed a press, with which to extract the mucilaginous juice mingled with the fecula, and he obtained a large quantity of flour, which Neb soon transformed into cakes and puddings.

The Mysterious Island 2005