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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 6 ingredients
Contains
Gluten
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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
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- A.
- Dissolve half a teaspoonful of baking-powder in about two tablespoonfuls of water.
- What happens?
- B.
- When the solution stops bubbling (effervescing) heat it (in a saucepan on the stove or in test-tube over a bunsen burner or a gas-stove burner).
- What effect has heat on the bubbling?
- C.
- While it is bubbling fast, hold a lighted match over the mouth of the test-tube.
- What gas is being formed?
- This gas may also be tested for by the apparatus shown in Fig.
- 7.
- What effect will the gas have on the lime-water (p.
- 6) ?
- How baking-powder makes biscuit light.
- — "Wlien baking-powder is dissolved, carbon dioxide is formed and bubbles up.
- Heat increases the action.
- When the action takes place in a mix- Fig.
- 7.
- — Apparatus for testing for carbon dioxide.
- Tedt-tube (t) containing bakingpowder solution.
- Glass tube connected with t dips into lime-water contained in glass (p).
- ture during cooking, the thousands of bubbles of gas formed are caught in the mixture and baked in.
- This makes the biscuit, muffins, or cakes porous and light.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan