St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-17
IT IS ON TOP.
As Usual, the Royal Baking Powder Is
Highly Endorsed.
FACTS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
The United States and Canadian Gov
ernments Pronounce It the
Best.

The most important additions to the
baking powder literature are the recent
reports of The United States and Cana
dian governments, detailing the results
of their official investigation Of these
articles.
The report by the Canadian govern
ment is one of series made annually.
1t shows the great increase in the num-
Der of brands, particularly of the cheap
er or alum variety. The names of the
different powders are given, the princi-
pal ingredients, and the strength of
each. Great care seems to have been
taken in arriving at the results, and
they are commented upon with entire
impartiality.
As in all official reports, the cream of
tartar powders are commended as the
most wholesome and useful, and the
alum and alum-phosphate powders are
condemned.
in cubic inches of leavening gas per
cubic ounce. and in some of the powders
sold in this vicinity is as follows, taking
where more than one analysis was made
the average of the three highest:
Gu. Inches
Name. Leavening Gas
Royal, made from cream of tartar 1885
HOrsford'S, phosphate. .....1l9.N
Sovereign. .................... ...IlSOJ
PerfectiOn. .............. II5.30
None Sucn. .......-....... LUIS
DIR. Prices. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Il
1t is particularly gratifying to the
public and to the newspapers. with both
of whom the "Royal' is favor'-" 70
see this feather in the cap of this Anne
can baking powder.
AS the work of the Canadian authori.
ties is the most thorough and exhaust
i've that we have yet seen reported. we
quote from their conclusions as follows:
1.-The best and safest baking powder
Is a mixture of good cream of tartar
with proper proportion of bi-carbOnate
of soda, and about Is to 20 per cent OF
pure starch.
"Carbonate of ammonia, if pure, and
consequently entirely volatile at the
temperature of the oven, is perfectly
admissible substitute for the above.
ALUM is entirely Objectionable as q
substitute for cream of tartar. and
ought not to be allowed place in any
we'll appointed bakery. Not only Is the
resulting sulphate of soda powerful
purgatiVe and certain to interfere with
ually taken into the system, but the
alumina, set free by the reaction of the
powder. is capable of rendering in
soluble and unavailable the phosphOric
acid and phOSphateS naturally present
in food.
"Alum-phosphate powders are more
Objectionable still than the foregoing,
for reasons given in the body of the.
report"
The report of the United States gov
eminent was made by the chemical
division of the agricultural department
under authority given it by congress to
Investigate the food supply of the
country.
The object of the authors of this re-
port Is doubtful. 1t gives in scientific
terms the constituents of the different
baking powders, but is chary in It's
opinions or IL statements that will show
the unScientific housewife what she
most wants to know, and what the real
object of the investigation should have
been, to teach consumers which was the
best baking powder. The department
has gone out of its way also, it seems to
us,>in its efforts to prohibit any part Of
its report from being used by adj
vertisers who may desire to give the
public. in legitimate way, any of the
facts it may contain in referenceto their
goods. The investigation was made at
large public expense for the public
use. and the newspapers, baking powder
manufacturers and consumers. are all
parts of the public who bear their legit-
innate share of these expenses, and are
equally interested in having the facts
made public.
As this is not an advertisement"
however, there can be no injunction
upon the statement of the one most Sa-
lient fact which is found in the report,
and that is that the "ROyaP' Baking
Powder was found the highest in
strength of any of the powders tested.
The interest shown by the govern
ment and the various state authorities
in the matter of baking powders indi-
Gates the great Importance these arti-
cles have attained in the domestic econ
omy of the people, and should warn the
public against the use of any except the
best and purest in the preparation of