The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-11-06
BiKING Pow DER F.ACTS
Brought out by the Offiei@
Government Tests.
PURITY OF FOOD DEMANDED BY THEPEoPHEr
WHICH BAKING POWDER WILL GIVE In
From Chicago Tribune.

From Chicago Tribune.
| The public is always responsive to sugE
gestions about the food it eats. Great illz
| terest has been taken in the investigations
| OF the United States and Canadian govern
ments and by many of the diferenE
boards of health to show the purity or irnz
purity of milk, baking powders. spices and
| other articles in daily use in the culinary
department of our households
just now the subject of baking powderS
is claiming public attention. We all desire
pure and wholesome bread and this can not
be had with the use of impure or poisonous
| baking powder. There can be no long,
er any question that all the cheaper, lowef
grades of baking powders contain either all
um, lime or phosphate acid.
! The official analyses by the United Stateg
and Canadian governments have been stud.
led with interest and have pretty clearly esq
tablishei the facts upon this subject. The
United States government report gives the
names OF eighteen well known powders,
some of them advertised as pure cream of
The report shows that the royal baking
powder was found the highest in leavening
| strength, evolving 1906 cubic inches of gas
per single ounce of powder. There were
eight other brands of cream of tartar pow.
| ders tested and their average strength waf
| lilo cubic inches Of gas per ounce of pow
| der.
The Canadian goveran1 ent' irvestigations
! were ola still larger number of powders.
| The Royal baking powder was here also
shown the purest and highest in strength,
containing l29. 80 cubic inches of leayeuirs
gas per ounce of powder. Nine other cream
OF tartar powders were tested, their average
strength being reported to be 80 cul.ic;
inches of gas per ounce
These figures are very Instructive to the
practical housekeeper. They indicate :laE
the Royal baking powder goes more than 81
per cent further in use than the others or is
one third more economical Still more inf-
portant than this. however, they prove this
popular article has been brought to the
highest degree Of excellence--for to- its SUI
perlative purity this superiority in strength
Is due-and consequently that by it's usei
we may be insured the purest and most;
| healthful food
| The powders of lower strength are found
| to leave large amounts of inert matters inf
the food. This fact is emphasized by the
the report of the Ohio State Food Comm isl.
sioner, who, while finding the Royal prac--
tically pure, found no otker to contain less
than ten per cent of inert or foreign matter.
The public interest in this question has
| likewise caused to be made investigations
| by our local authorities. Prof. w. s,
| Haines, of Rush Medical College, consulting
chemist of the Chicago Board of Health, has
found results similar to those; reported by
the national and Canadian authorities. DIR
Haines says:
| Crush MEDICAL COLLEGE, Chicago, Ill.
| have recently obtained samples OF the
chief baking powders of the market, an9
have subjected Them to careful chemical
examination to determine their purity;
wholesomeness and leavening power. Az
the result of my tests find the Royal bak.
ing powder superior to all others If every
. respect. 1t is entirely free from all sdul--
teration and unwholesome impurity, and in
baking it gives off greater volume of leav-
ening gas than any other powder. It is
therefore, not only the purest, but also the
strongest powder with which I am acquaint1
ed. =, WALTER s. HAINEs. M II
Consulting Chemist, Chicago Board Of
| HEALTH
The statistics show that there ii used in.
the manufacture of the Royal baking pow
der mure tnan half of all the cream of tar
tar consumed in the United States for all
purposes. The wonderful sale thus indi-
Gated for the Royal baking powder-greater
than all other baking powders combined
is perhaps a higher evidence than that all
ready quoted of the superiority of this arti-
Gle, and Of its indispensableness to- moderrt
cookery.