Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-14
BAKING POWDER FACTS.
Brought Out by the Official
Government Tests.
Purity Of Food Demanded by the
PeOple-WhIeh Baking Powder
Will Give IL?
From Chicago Tribune.

From Chicago Tribune.
The public is always responsive to
suggestions about the food it eats.
Great interest has been taken in the
Investigations made by the United
States and Canadian governments
and by the different boards of health
to show the purity or impurity of
milk, baking powders, spices, and
other articles of daily use in the
culinary department of our house.
holds.
Just now the subject of baking
powder is claiming public attention.
We all desire pure and wholesome
bread, and this cannot he had with
the use of impure or poisonous bak-
ing powder. There can be no longer
any question that all the cheaper,
lower grades of baking powder con-
tain either alum, lime,er phosphate
acid.
The official analyses by the United
States and Canadian governments
have therefore been studied with in
terest and have pretty clearly estab-
lished the facts upon this subject.
The United States government re
port gives the names of eighteen
well-known powders, some of them
advertised as pure cream of tartar
baking powders, that contain alum.
The report shows that the Royal
baking powder was found the high
est in leayening strength, evolving
1906 cubic inches of gas per single
ounce of powder. There were eight
other brands of cream of tartar
powders tested and their average
strength was Ills cubic inches of
gas per ounce of powder.
The Canadian government inves-
LEGATIONS were of a still larger num-
ber of powders. The Royal baking
powder was here also shown the
purest and highest in strength, con-
tanning 1892 cubic inches of leav-
ening gas per ounce of powder
Nine other cream of tartar powders
were tested, their average strength
being reported to. be SO cubic inches
of gas per ounce.
These figures are very instructive
to the practical .housekeeper. They
indicate that the Royal baking pow
der goes more than 33 per cent. fur
ther in use than the others, or Is
one-third more economical. Still
more important than this, however,
they prove this popular article has
been brought to the highest degree
of purity-for to its superlative
purity this superiority in strength is
due-and consequently that by its
use we may be insured the purest
and most wholesome food.
The powders of lower strength
are found to leave large iamounts OF
inert matters in the food. This fact
is emphasized by the Ohio state food
commissioner, who, while finding
the Royal practically pure, found nc
other powder to contain less than 10
per cent. of inert or foreign matters.
The public interest in this question
has likewise caused to be made in
vestigations by our local authorities.
Prof. w. S. Haines, of Rush Medi-
cal college, consulting chemist of the
Chicago board of health, has found
results similar to those reported by
the national and Canadian authori-
ties. DR.. Haines says:
RUSH MED. COL, CHICAGO.
have recently obtained samples
of the chief baking powders in the
market, and have subjected them
to careful chemical examination to
determine their purity, wholesome
ness, and leavening power. AS the
result of my tests, find the Royal
baking powder superior to all the
others in every respect. 1t is en-
tirely free from all adulteration and
unwholesome impurity, and in bak-
ing it gives off a greater volume of
leayenIng gas than any other pow
der. 1t is, therefore, not only the
purest, but also the strongest pow
der with which am acquainted.
WALTER S. HAINEs, NJ. D.,
Consulting Chemist, Chicago Board
of Health.
The statistics show that there is
used in the manufacture of the
Royal baking powder more than
half of all the cream of tartar con
sumed in the United States for all
purposes. The wonderful sale thus
indicated for the Royal baking pow
der-greater than that of all other
baking powders combined--is per-
haps even a higher evidence than
that already quoted Of the superiori-
ty of this article, and of its indis-
ableness to modern cookery.
Martin Kelly, a San Francisco