The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-01

Facts fosethe Guidance of the Public
in the Selection of a Food Prepara-
->tion.-The True Interpretation of the
Results of the Analyses made by
the Ohio State Officials OF the Bak-
ing Powders. Ex- Commissioner
Hurst Speaks.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. %. 1883.
To THE PUBLIC
NV attention has been called frequently Of
late to the Royal Baking Powder Company's
perversion of the official analyses made by
the Ohio Dairy and Food Commission of
thirty brands of baking powder. / had pre-
yiously seen their garbled, false and mislead-
ing statements, however, and had published
in the Ohio State Journal an article denoun-
cling their statements and deductions as be-
ing most perversely false. Twas at that time
an officer of the State, however, and could 60
no further than simply to expose the falsity
of their statements, and denounce their abuse
of an impartial official paper. Soon there
after, however, resigned the commissioner
ship to accept other responsible work.
now observe that the Royal Company is
causing the false and unfair statement to be
published still more widely than ever in the
local newspaper press-it being so worded as
to appear as a sort of semi-oficial document.
Against such false showing against such
impudence and cupidity in perverting an Off
cial paper / protest; and now, as a citizen,
free from the restraints of official impartiali-
ty, feel free to give the true Interpretation
of the results of those analyses, as it reflects
upon the relative merits of the several brands
of powder analysed by the Commission
The Royal Baking Powder Company, in
comparing the analysis of their powder with
others as to the amount of gas produced
drops the Cleveland's out of the list doubt
less because that powder was proven to be
richer in gas product, or in leayening power
than theirs, and compares their goods with
the cheaper and inferior grades of baking
powder. But in comparing as to residuum
left in the bread they include the Cleveland
brand And here is their Justification most
glaring
The slightly increased percentage Of res
iduum in Cleyeland's baking powder is due
to the large amount of pure cream of tartar
and bicarbondate of soda it contains, and,
considered in connection with its richness of
carbonic acid gas, the leavening agent Dit
contains the highest percentage of carbonic
acid gas of all the cream of tartar baking
powders), is another and very strong proof
OF its superiority to the Royal 1t is the per-
centagc of carbonic acid gas evolved by the
baking powder in the process of bread
making that determines the amount of bak-
ing powder residuum in the bread. The
larger the percentage Of carbonic acid gas in
the baking powder, the less the residuum in
the bread. Cleveand's baking powder con-
tains more carbonic acid gas than the Royal;
consequently, bread material leavened by
Cleveland's baking powder contains less res
iduum than does bread material leavened by
the Royal baking powder
The State Chemists analyses show the
superiority of Cleveland's baking powder in
the four highest qualities ofexcelence:
1st.-It is richer in cream Of tartar.
2nd.-It is richer in gas product. or leaven-
ing power.
3rd-From its use there is less residuum in
the bread material.
4th.-It does not contain any unhealthful or
offensive ingredient such as alum,
ammonia, lime, &c. The Royal con-
tains ammonia.
The analyses and comparison OF the best
eight brands of cream of tartar baking pow
der show that Clevelands superior baking
powder is the richest in cream Of tartar, and
richest in gas product or leayening power,
and, having no unhealthful or impure ele-