Fecula

The fecula is the substance of bread, pastry and purees of all kinds. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The roots of those which are perennial contain, besides fecula, which is their base, a resinous, acrid, and bitter principle. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (1851)

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. " ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

With this fecula was mingled a mucilaginous juice of disagreeable flavor, but which it would be easy to get rid of by pressure. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They make at Paris for children and for birds, and in some of the departments for men also, patisseries in which gluten predominates, the fecula having been removed by water. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Almost all domestic animals eat the fecula, and are made by it extremely strong; for it is a more substantial nourishment than the dry and green vegetables which are their habitual food. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The fecula is more prompt in its action when it is mingled with sugar. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The fecula is not less fattening when in solution, as in beer, and other drinks of the same kind. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The antiobesic regimen is therefore indicated by the most common causes of the diseases, and by the fact that it has been shown that farina or fecula form fat in both men and animals. ❋ Unknown (2004)

By fecula we mean farina or flower obtained from cereals, from legumes and various kinds of roots, among which the potato holds a prominent place. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The fecula is especially nutritious, especially as it contains fewer foreign principles. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Man I just Witnessed [a count] Fecula's [disappearing act] In [the bathroom]. ❋ Bmilligan05 (2016)