Making Potato Paper Glue
Here is a recipe for making a strong paper glue suitable. The
glue contains no harmful substances.
- Grate 2 large potatoes in a kitchen shredder using a fine grating blade.
- Add a cup of water to the resulting potato paste
- Filter this mixture through a fine cloth
- Fill the liquid into a pot or glass and let it settle for about an hour.
- The white potato starch will concentrate at the bottom of the glass.
- Discard most of the liquid and keep the starch
- Add 1/2 cup of water and boil the starch water mixture
until it becomes jelly.
- This jelly is a very strong paper glue
It is really necessary to use potatoes. Other ready made corn starch of flower
can not be used. Maybe it can be treated with additional chemicals to get
some glue. Let me know if you know about such a procedure.
This page was written by Guido Socher [guido at linuxfocus.org]
Sat Nov 19 16:59:27 CET 2005