I'm assuming there aren't console commands on console so helpful for them. I haven't used the console much, other than for noclip for a bug.

Yeah that's a useful method, but do people really feel bad about typing in player.additem to obviate what to my mind is pointless busywork?

You can cook it!  There's a recipe for Vegetable Starch at your cooking station...  You need Corn, Mutfruit, and Tato, which you can garden... and Purified Water, which seeeeems to show up when you have more water production than your settlement's population needs.  And the resulting can of starch counts as *5* adhesives.

For the Fallout-4 people jonesing for adhesive: