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glutinous

[gloot-n-uhs] / ˈglut n əs /


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Glutinous pasta water serves a similar purpose to an egg white in a drink, as an emulsifier of ingredients and to soften a drink’s harder edges.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Glutinous rice flour imparts butter mochi's signature chewy-bouncy "Q" texture, also found in boba, bibingka, daifuku, and rice cakes.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2021

Glutinous, aka sweet, rice flour is made from cooking, pounding, and drying a glutinous variety of short-grain rice.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2021

Forty different kinds of rice are named, but these may properly be reduced to four classes, the Common or table, the Small-grained or mountain, the Glutinous, and the Vermilion rice.

From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette

This is yet more evident in Tenacious and Glutinous bodies; such as Gummous Liquors, Syrups, Pitch, and Rosin melted, &c.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert




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