You can use 4 teaspoons of quick cooking tapioca OR 1 tablespoon corn starch in place of 2 tablespoons flour for thickening.
Tapioca.
The main ingredients for a cherry pie are pitted cherries, white sugar, quick-cooking tapioca, and butter. It can also contain almond extract, vanilla extract, and salt.
corn startch works better but it also depends on what you are cooking
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Cream is not a good replacement for cornstarch. Instead use 2 tablespoons of flour for 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Or you could use 4 teaspoons of quick cooking tapioca for 1 tablespoon of cornstarch.
Tapioca when added to a soup, or stew serves as a thickening agent much like cornstarch.
The difference is the cooking time. Quick oats cook in 5 minutes and the regular oats cooks in 15 minutes. That is why they are called Quick Oats. The reason that the cooking time is different is that quick oats are regular oats that have been cut a few times to make them smaller pieces.
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= Cornstarch Substitute = For 1 tablespoon cornstarch, substitute 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour; OR 1 tablespoon potato flour or rice flour; OR 4 teaspoons quick cooking tapioca; OR 2 teaspoons arrowroot.
tapioca starch !
Tapioca starch has similar properties to corn starch. The amylose content of tapioca starch is about the same as corn starch but there are some phosphate groups present in tapioca which I think affect the solubility of starches in water.