Soda bread (was Re: [Sca-cooks] restricted ingredients

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

What IS cream of tartar? I have this bottle of it sitting in my cabinet, 
and have little idea of what to do with it. (OK, I  know it is potassium 
hydrogen tartrate, KC _4 H _5 O _6 )  From Cadoc's post, about using it 
as the base, it is an acidic salt. Up to now, I only used it to 
stabilize my egg whites, more as a magic powder than any real 
understanding of what it was doing. Didn't realize it was in my baking 
powder. Lookout! this is starting to make sense!

Aoghann.
I have a vague memory of it being related to wine making...


Bill Fisher wrote:

>Add the same volume of cream of tartar to the mixture...that will be your base.
>Or baking powder, which is just cream of tartar and baking soda mixed.
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