SC - Re: Hartshorn
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Thu May 8 00:13:15 PDT 1997
At 12:56 PM -0400 5/7/97, Lasairina at aol.com wrote:
>Allison writes:
>
>> Some of my German recipes call for 'hartshorn' as an ingredient.
I believe that hartshorn is ammonium carbonate. I don't know of any
evidence that it was used as a chemical leavening in period, but I have a
vague impression that it had other early culinary uses.
David/Cariadoc
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