# "A bowl of corn flour" -- ring a bell? UK readers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bowl-of-corn-flour-ring-a-bell-uk-readers/938371 "2021-03-21T21:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bowl-of-corn-flour-ring-a-bell-uk-readers/938371/6 "2021-03-21T22:27:04Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Sure it’s not _cornflower_? Google has a lot of hits. In the usage “A bowl of…?” I didn’t find any. However, googling that (sorry, I should have done that first) did reveal these interesting tidbits. From [here](https://food.ndtv.com/ingredient/cornflour-701009): “One can make a simple pudding with corn starch, milk and sugar.” Plus the information that “cornflour” in the UK is called corn starch in the US. Also from [here](https://janelindskold.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/tt-the-great-corn-flour-mystery/), a few lines selected from the story where this is used, noting that it is hyphenated here. ’ “Mr. Jones had gone down to the kitchen and demanded a bowl of corn-flour for his wife, who had complained of not feeling well.” Later: “Miss Clark… told us that the whole of the bowl of corn-flour was drunk not by Mrs. Jones but by her.” Later: “it is nicely made, too, no lumps… Very few girls nowadays seem to be able to make a bowl of corn-flour nicely.” Later: “You drink up the bowl of corn-flour.” ’ So it sounds like perhaps a fairly loose or thin pudding made with corn-flour (corn starch), milk and sugar, useful to settle the stomach. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bowl-of-corn-flour-ring-a-bell-uk-readers/938371)._