Skip to content

Beta This app is in Beta Testing

Experiments

No ratings yet
United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. two tablespoonfuls of water
  2. Biscuit
  3. Dips
  4. Muffins
  5. Fig
  6. a teaspoonful of baking-powder
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

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.

Method

  1. A.
  2. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of baking-powder in about two tablespoonfuls of water.
  3. What happens?
  4. solution stops bubbhng (effervescing) heat it (in a saucepan on the stove or in test-tube over a bunsen burner or a gas-stove burner).
  5. What effect has heat on the bubbUng?
  6. C.
  7. While it is bubbhng fast, hold a hghted match over the mouth of the test-tube.
  8. What gas is being formed?
  9. This gas may also be tested for by the apparatus shown in Fig.
  10. 7.
  11. What effect will the gas have on the Ume-water (p.
  12. 6) ?
  13. ^ B.
  14. When the How baking-powder makes biscuit Fig.
  15. 7.
  16. — Apparatus for light.
  17. -When baking-powder is dis- ^ ^^ «''■•''<'" ^"^ solved, carbon dioxide is formed and Test-tube «) containing baking- .
  18. powder solution.
  19. Glass tube bubbles up.
  20. Heat increases tbe action, connected with t dips into When the action takes place in a mix- lime-water contained in glass («7).
  21. ture during cookings the thousajids of bubbles of gas formed are caught in the mixture and baked in.
  22. This makes the biscuit;
  23. muffinS;
  24. or cakes porous and Hght.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan