[Sca-cooks] period leavening agents

[Stefan li Rous]

Simon Hondy asked about leavening agents:
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I am on a slow research for chemical leaveners.
As a start I am looking for the names ancient people would have used for
them. For example Roman's and Egyptians had soda ash for glass 
production,
and may have used it in baking.
I ran across another one today, Natron.
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I can't remember the details of these when we talked about them before, 
but you might want to take a look through this file. Your own research 
may already be beyond what is here, but perhaps there will be something 
of use:
leavening-msg     (13K) 11/13/04    Period leavening agents other than 
yeast.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/leavening-msg.html

Stefan
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