The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-07
PERSON T..
VINDICATlON OF PATAPSCO BA-
KING-POWDER.

Our attention has been called to the card OF
Gresham & Brown, Of the 20 h ultmo. In which hey
y ublicly complain of our agent. Mr.. j. L. Myer'.
As this Is the first complaint of any kind which has
been made against Mr.. Myers, who has been In our
employ constantly for SIX Years, and has fully ex-
planned his course To Us III Richmoud, we accept his
statements correct, and assume all the reSpon-
sibility of his course. The complaint against our
agent was only 4 Dretpxt 20 commence an insiiiOus
attack on our Patapsco Baking Powder, through
Dr. Taylor. State Chemist. II Professor Taylor VIII
correctly analyze the Patapsco Baking-Powder, and
give the percentage OF each Ingredient, and the re-
sidua salts they form and which is eaten In the
bread, and then lake two teaspoonfuls OF pure
cream.iartar and teaspoonful of baklne-soda
and give Of these the kind and quantity Of
residual salts in the bread, he will confer
lasting benefit on the state OF which he Is an
officer. We invie-wc cbalienge-him TO the
fullest in est cation into the heaihfuncss or the
PaiapscO Baking Powder. Our Baking Powder Is
protcc ed Dy letters-patent from the United states
and Engli Governments. our acid IS the - EX-
Seccafra Ammonia Alum" which differs as essen
tally from ordinary alan as charcoal differs from
wood or Oals from diamonds. In Joint Of health
funess. when combined with baking soda, II Is IN
qucstionaby pref rable 10 crealn-tartar. Tbs
years 25.000000 pouncs of baking powder made
I'm accordance with our patent have been sold In Ills
country. Professor Horsford, OF Harvard College
twenty years ago recognized the necessity of SUD
S'itute for cream-tartar uDOn the ground Of hegHh'
fUfneSs diOHe, and he prepared and patented me
Acid Phosphate of Lime; aud Notwithstanding That
Professor llOrsfOris preparation Is our greatest
competitor in Baltimore aud Richmond we always
recommend his preparation as vastly superior 20
any CfeHl tartar We INSTRUCT our
agents TO advise the public against the use of cream
trtar in baking, and all PREPARATIONS for baking
that contain II. We claim that our acid POSSESSES
advantage over all other substances used win SOFA
for baking. That these claims are vel founded,
read the following conclusive testimony on the sub
Jet:
NEW HAVEN, March 10, 1879.
Messrs. Smith. HanlCdy d. Co., Baltimore, .Hd.:
Gentlem,n.-I have prepared baking-powder
from the materials specified IN your letters. patent
and find the bread baked lhCreIrOm III my own
kitchen free from alum.
The ingredients In your PatapscO Powder stand
in such relation 10 each other 10 do their work In
the most Efficient manner. and by their chemical
constitution no action occurs un high degree OF
heat T. reached In the oven. The hon, ekfcpcr VIII
therefore find your powders more convenient than
The oven lest IL fal. For the same reason griddle
cakes made with your powders may be mixed a long
time before without loss of lghtucss The mode
Of ihera1ng The acid used 10y YOU j. ingenious, ana
believe original As applied 10 baklng-I powders. As
il acts the bcarbonatc OF Soda setting free the
gas 10 raise the bre "a, and chiefly at high tempe
nature IL IS peculiarly well adapted 10 d. is work.
Your PatapscO Powders are In frequent and salts
factory u.e In my own family. regard them as
quite As free from objection the score Of health
as any other baking-pOwder now In use, and as
sups riOr in convenience and efficiency.
The objections expressed against your powders
are think without sufficient rcason | shared TO
"A certain degree In these objections until ex-
amned The subject In the laboratory aud by the
practical experience OF the XII chen and the table.
Yours respectfully,
y. SILLIMAN,
Chemist for Connecticut,