Instant Clearjel®

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About Instant Clearjel®
Instant Clearjel is a modified corn starch. It is precooked to make it blend quickly and easily in cold liquids. Sets up immediately reaching full thickness within 5-10 minutes without cooking. Instant clearjel can be used in cooking as well. It stores indefinitely. Info Source: http://www.barryfarm.com/nutri_info/thickeners/clear_jel_instant.htm

Buying Instant Clearjel®
Instant Clearjel is often available (to the public) for purchase from Restaurant Food Supply shops. Check the yellow pages for such stores or try calling your local state extension service for help locating a shop near you. It is also readily available online, with shipping charges added. A number of sites include: http://www.barryfarm.com/thickeners.htm https://shop.bluechipgroup.net/displayProductDocument.hg?productId=284 http://www.kingarthurflour.com

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Cooking Instant Clearjel®
Instant ClearJel (ICJ) is a wonderful thickener (Modified Food Starch) used for frozen jam recipes, but particularly best know for thickening commercially baked pies. ICJ provides great to excellent, economical, clear and thick results in recipes, when either prepared cold or heated. It's called "Instant" because is swells and gels instantly, when it comes in contact with any liquid. When added improperly, it will gel in clumps, so it is very BEST when added with other dry ingredients (i.e. sugar or powdered milk) before stirring in any liquids. It can also be blended in nicely with an immersion blender or food processor, when not using dry ingredients, as in a fruit sauce.

How to use Instant ClearJel One-Tbsp Instant ClearJel thickens one-cup of liquid. Simply add ICJ to the dry ingredients (such as powdered milk, sugar or flour, even spices) or blend as specified above, with an immersion blender (or food processor) for purees.

Substitutions in recipes: 3 tablespoons Instant ClearJel = 3 tablespoons cornstarch OR 1/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour OR 1/4 cup tapioca flour

ICJ offers an excellent, long-term, chilled stability and texture. Good long-term stability when boiled, but can break down (if heated to boiling for a long time and then stored, such as in processed jams). Not preferred for gravies and tomato sauces. Adds little to no flavor, you taste just the main ingredient.

ICJ has several advantages over other common thickeners (i.e. cornstarch, flour or potato starch and much less expensive than arrowroot). It has a more neutral flavor, so it's a good thickener for delicately flavored liquids. It also thickens without cooking and tolerates acidic ingredients. While sauces thickened with the other thickeners turn into a spongy mess if they're frozen, whereas sauces made with Instant ClearJel can be frozen and then thawed.

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