Different kinds of baking-powder
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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
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Ingredients 5 ingredients
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Milk
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Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
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- A baking-powder which contains just the right proportions of soda and acid makes a neutral solution.
- It is important that the salt formed should be harmless.
- Cream of tartar forms with soda Rochelle salts.
- These are soluble.
- They have a slight medicinal effect, but in eating food raised with bakingpowder, a person gets a very small quantity of the salt.
- Cream of tartar baking-powders, also called tartrate powders, are among the best on the market.
- Two other classes of baking-powders are made.
- In one of these the acid used is acid phosphate.
- In the other it is alum.
- The salt left in food raised with phosphate powders is insoluble, but not ^ Note that alkaline solutions feel slippery.
- Washing-soda and bakingsoda are both alkaline carbonates.
- Washing-soda is sodium carbonate, baking-soda is sodium bi-carbonate.
- 2 Water in which red cabbage-water has been boiled may be used instead of litmus paper as a test for acids and alkalies.
- Acids turn cabbagewater violet.
- Alkalies turn it green.
- injurious.
- Alum powders leave an objectionable residue.
- Alum powders are cheap, but as they lose their strength sooner than tartrate powders do, and as they often contain considerable starch, an alum powder may not be as cheap as it seems.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Spatula