---- bev walker <[email protected]> wrote: 
Did it in fact turn the textile really yellow, or was it a mere tinge of yellow 
- enough to associate the colour with the product, or was it white anyway, 
given that 'white' can be many shades ----

Bev makes a good point.  Blueing looks blue, and it makes whites a "cooler" 
(bluer) shade of white.  However, we see the result as bright white; not blue, 
not even pale blue.  Perhaps yellow starch made things a "warmer" (yellower) 
shade of white rather than yellowish.


----Potatoes spoil under frosty conditions, don't they? ----

Perhaps "frosting" (freezing, I assume) breaks down the starch.  This should 
make sugar (the starch molecule is a chain of sugar molecules), which certainly 
works for making fabric stiff.  Just as bad, as far as attracting bugs, but 
perhaps more effective for getting those really stiff ruffs and winged collars 
to hold their shape?  Just a thought; I don't know.

Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
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