[Sca-cooks] Re: baking powder

[Terry Decker]

In this case, I got curious about the heat activated second rise a while
back and went on a fishing expedition, which yielded some basic marketing
strategy as well as ingredient information.  I haven't figured out the
baking chemistry of the sodium aluminum sulfate yet.  In the process of
digging, I found a bunch of interesting tidbits.  Over the next few years,
I'll do some test baking to give me a better feel for how and when to use
specific chemical leavens.

Bear

>Thanks for that...very interesting! Particularly the bit about
>inter-brand rivalry...you get ads for baking powder???!
>Now that you mention it, I remember baking powder being a bicarb
>soda/cream of tartar mixture.
>
>Margaret/Emma