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sed to make bland biscuits and invalid food and as a substitute for potato, arrowroot is a plant with a long history in Australia. Gluten free, rich in carbs and best known here as Queensland arrowroot, it was the original source of flour for arrowroot biscuits. Today, arrowroot flour is made from another tropical tuber called West Indian arrowroot (Maranta

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