SC - chemical leavening
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Thu Jul 13 23:30:10 PDT 2000
Bear said:
> It's just the earliest reference which I have encountered, and I must admit
> ignorance in the matter of Arabic culinary history. I am also making the
> assumption the soda was being used as a chemical leaven, rather than being
> included for some other purpose. That assumption may be erroneous.
>
> In European baking, the first reference of which I know to a possible
> chemical leaven occurs in the late 16th or early 17th Centuries. They may
> not have been common until the 19th Century, but I haven't examined enough
> recipes from the intervening three centuries to form a solid opinion.
If you can dig up that referance, I would love to hear more. From what I
thought I'd heard here, I'd been telling folk the nineteenth century
for the first baking powder or other chemical leavening. While I
understand that referance may be an exception rather than a common
use, I'd still like to have the referance.
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Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
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