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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 6 ingredients
Contains
MilkSulphites
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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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- Dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in a fourth of a cup of water in one glass, and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar^ in the same quantity of water in another glass.
- (Cream of tartar dissolves more readily in hot water than in cold.) E.
- Pour the two solutions together.
- Observe the effect and tell what you think causes it.
- F.
- If a further demonstration is desired, a httle soda with about twice as much cream of tartar may be dissolved, heated in a test-tube, and the gas tested as in Exp.
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- Add a pinch of soda or a httle soda solution to sour milk ;
- to vinegar.
- H.
- Taste cream of tartar.
- How does it taste?
- How soda makes griddle cakes light.
- — Soda is a carbonate.
- When such a carbonate as soda and an acid meet in solution, they unite, and carbon dioxide is formed.
- In sour-milk griddle cakes the sour milk supplies lactic acid.
- Baking-powder contains both soda and cream of tartar or some other acid.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Griddle