The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-10
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An article has recently been going the
Of efq baking 1s p sae dRase are f falsely Sa,cs Stated apm to BE-
injurious to health. This article appears
as solid reading matter, but is, we a re-
tisement published by the Price Baking
Powder CO., who, not content with x
tolling the virtue of their own product,
The result which the authors wish to at
tain is to prejudice the people against all
baking powders save their own, to LEAD 10
danger If they use any other powder, to
force them to pay extortionate prices for
from the fact that in food prepared from
their baking powder there is concealed
large quantities of Rochelle salts.
stances which depends for it's bread rails
ing. efficiency upon a chemical reaction
which takes place in the process OF bak-
original ingredients is entirely changed SO
that to say that a baking powder Is q
cream ere m Of tartar powder gives the pnin naas
left in the food. What the consumer real
ly wants to know is what he eats. ,
powder consists of bi-carbonate of soda,
cream of tartar and arch. The chemical
reaction which takes place in the baking
tar, the starch acting only as a filler or
keeper. The soda and the cream of tar
car react upon each other in such a way
rs to free carbonic acid gas and to form
water and Rochelle salts, which drug re-
mains in the bread and all it Is
DR.. Prices baking powder. according to
analysis, contains about % per cent of bi.
carbonate of soda, which will require GIG
ton and the two will make over 93 per
cent of Rochelle salts such as is found in
the drug stores. One heaping teaspoonful
of baking powder weighs about 200 grains
and will make IA ounces of bread or
twelve good sized biscuits. In these
nous quantity Of 1sa grains Of Rochelle
salts. With an average meal. at. which
three biscuits are eaten, one would take
into the system 4Gh grains of Rochelle
Rochelle salts is the active ingredient
OF Seidlitz powders and Is a most excel
medicine and not an article of food and
the daily consumption of from so to 100
grains viii! seriously derange the tomach
the residue left IN the food. DR.. Prices
baking, powder is simply a Seidfitz pow
der, diluted with starch. l3eloW Is given
the opinion OF a eastern medical authority
on this constant dosing with Rochelle
pr. A. Warner Shepard, formerly health
officer in Brooklyn, said: Il have not the
slightest doubt hat the mental and ply
steal health of thousands is permantiy
salts in impure beer, bread and other
forms of food and drink. 1t is certainly
q factor in the alarming increase O.
lar complaints: 1t i%rritates the stomach
bowels AMI kidneys AID may therefore
produce the must unfortunate results
In an interview the manufacturers OF
Calumet baking powders. one of the
powders, mentioned i'm the article referred
10, stated that food prepared with theil
product was entirely free from Rochelle
salts, alum, ammonia. lime or any in
furious substance.
The Price Baking Powder Co. has ad'
vertised that all baking powder sold al
less than 40 or 30 cents per pound are
adulterated. Notwithstanding this they
call fhnEr (tro ~, ' Ba1yinn efurdnr in Nav
York and other eastern states, where
they cannot obtain the extornionatt
prices demanded in the West, at a price
which will allow it to be proftably re
tailed at 80 cents per pound.