The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-08
INDICATION OF PATAPSCO BA-
KfNG-POWDER

| our attention has been called 10 The card of
GRESHAM Brown, or the 29tb utimo. IN which they
| ublicly complain OF our agent. Mr. j. p Wyers
As THIS Is The first complaint OF any kind which has
Deen mahe against Mr.. Myers, WHO has been in eur
employ constantly for six years. and Ia, fully ex.
palned MS course TO Is IN Richmond, we accept HIS
sta,ement, IS correc, and We assume all the respon.
| siDnty OF his course. The complaint against our
Ea2e1t was only a pre,ext 10 commence an insifous
attack on our Pstapsco Baking. Powder. through
Dr. Taylor. State Chemist II Professor Taylor will
correctly analyze the Patapsco Baking-Powder and
give the percentage Of each ingre0cHt, and the re-
rs,d ,d1ai salts salt they form and woch isaten in The
anl-tartar and teaspoonfnl Of baking-soda
and give OF these the Kind and quantity Of
| lasting belen, on the State Of which he is an
officer. We inyite-wc chalepge-him 10 the
fullest ingestlgston into the heslihrulness OF the
| PalapscO Baking. Powder. our Bssiug Powder is
protec Ell oy letterspItent from the United states
ana Engl Gofernments. Our acid Is the " Ex-
Seccatra Ammonia Alum" which differs as essen.
| Tally from Ordinary alan as charcoal differs from
wood, or Goals from diarnonts. In Point II health.
fulness. when combined With basing-s0da 70 is uH-
Ine'tionaby preferable to cream-tirtar. This
point Is now beyond controversy. In the past three
years 2oOOOO00 pounds Of baking-powder made
In accordance with our patent have been sold n tis
country. Professor Horsford, of Harvard College,
twenty years ago recognized the necessity Of sub
siitute for cream-tariar upon the ground ofhedHh.
|ulnssS atone. ana he prepared and patented the
Acid Phosphate Of lime aud notwithstanding that
Professor Uorsford's preparation Is our greatest
competitor in baltimore and Kicbmopd. we always
recommend his preparation vastly superior TO
sny esm-tariar baking: powder. We instruct our
tortar in baking, and all preparations for taking
that contain II. We claim that our acid possesses
advantages over all other substances used with soda
for baking. That these claims vel founded,
read the following conclusive testimony on the SUBJ
jeet:
NEW HAVEN, March 10, 1879.
NeSsrs Smith HaatoGy d Co., Baltimore, Nd:
Geniiemen,-l have prepared baking powder
from the mat rias pccihed In your letters patent.
and find the bread baked iherefrom IN my own
kitchen free from alum.
The ingredients in your PatapSc0 Powder stand
in such relation 10 each other 10 do their work I'm
the Tost efficient Uanner, and by their chemical
constitution no action occurs until high Cggree OF
heat Is reached IL the oven. The hou, ek,eper will
therefore find your powders more convenient ihan
those when require haste In getting tie batch I'm
The oven lest 10 fail. For the same re3don gridde-
cakes ma e with your powders may be mixed a long
time before use without loss of IghtHcss The mode
of liherang he acid used by you il Ingenious, and
believe original as applied 10 baking r0wders. AS
II acts on the bi.carbOnate OF soda. setting free the
"a 10 raise the tre ID and chiefly 81 high tempe
rature It Il peculiarly well adapted 20 q IT. work.
Your PatapscO Powders are In frequent aud Satis-
factor in my Awn family. | reSard Them as
dite as free from objection on the score Of health
as any other bakiOg-pOwder now la u.s., and as
superior I'm convenience aud efficiency.
The objections expressed against your powders
are | thak. without sufficient reason. shared 10
A certain degree IN these objections un II | ex-
amiu.d the subject IN the laboratory and BY the
praclicll experience of the Kitchen and the table.
Yours respectfully.
10. 4 NA-e