Wondra is a treated flour that can be shaken into a sauce without clumping if whisked briskly while being added to hot liquids. Doesn't take a lot to thicken several tbsp sauce esp if it is already partially cooked down. It isn't hard to use...just shake in a bit...whisk for a moment ...shake in a bit more if needed. Hard to overshoot with.
I often cheat using Wondra flour to thicken a cream sauce. When it is of the volume and flavor that I want, I whisk in Wondra until its right. Different taste? Maybe a little, but I think you'd have to know I did it to suspect a difference
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100 days...wow That is the very thing that is keeping my hideous old cabinets in place. When the time eventually comes I may be the general contractor and do it in controllable stages. I've heard horror stories.
All of this garlic cleansing has the ring of a religious practice. Good history but scant support. Not that I'm against religion. But its hard to understand why 10 or 4 or whatever number of washes are needed to gentle the garlic more than 2 washes. I can make rationalizing explanations eg milk is an emulsion that will solubilize both polar and non-polar stuff. But I see more idiosyncrasy than science and smell the odor of BS more than that of garlic.