SC - Pennsic Merchants

[Michael F. Gunter]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 6-May-97 Re: SC - Mushrooms!
- -Reply by LYN M PARKINSON at juno.com 
> Some of my German recipes call for 'hartshorn' as an ingredient.  Do we
> have any animal chemists on the list to know if deer antlers contain
> cream of tartar or something like baking powder or soda?  If so, it may
> be a leavening in period.

Nope, they contain ammonia, which was used as a rising agent in period.

toodles, margaret