SC - RE: A Soup for the Qan...revisited

Thu Jul 13 06:26:57 PDT 2000

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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.

Bear

I will recheck when I get a moment, think it is, in fact, soda. Not as pure
as the modern stuff. But no, this can't be the earliest such reference. Soda
was used in Arabic breadmaking long before. I even mention use of baura, a
kind of soda, in chapter 1. Probably this is not a Chinese feature.

Paul

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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=839295212-13072000>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=839295212-13072000>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT size=2>I will recheck when I get a moment, think it is, in fact, 
  soda. Not as pure as the modern stuff. But no, this can't be the earliest such 
  reference. Soda was used in Arabic breadmaking long before. I even mention use 
  of baura, a kind of soda, in chapter 1. Probably this is not a Chinese 
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