The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-03

health, have accordingly made a series
of examinations of bread made with bak-
ing powder thus classified. manufactured
in chs state, and beg to submit the fol-
lowing report;
The can of powder, which retailed at 10
cents. weighed sixteen ounces, and gave
off 145S per cent. OF carbon dioxide gas;
the directions advised the use of one tea
spoonful TO one quart of hour-One quart
of Dunlop -four made up according to di-
rections and formed into biscuits and
baked, gave batch of light, delicious bis
cults.
The only soluble salts contained was a
| small amount of sulphate Of soda. From
my experiments, carefully made. a well
compounded baking powder, with alum
as an ingredient, In the recognized pro-
portions, is as harmless as the best cream
| tartar predetermined. 1t is less harmful,
as the cream tartar powder leaves In the
bread a large residue of bitartrate of pot
| ash and soda.
IT find that well compounded baking
| powders, with alum as an ingredient give
a leavening effect fully equal to the higher
| priced baking powders costing four or five
| times as much"
"These two investigations" continued Mr..
| Higgins, ARE representative of many Of
| like character which the manufacturers
who use exsiccated alum in their product
viii submit to the Senate Committee Of
| the Legislature in addition to the peri
sonal testimony of chemists of the high
est character in this country; all of which
will effectively prove that alum bakins
powder is healthful and efficient.
| HThe consideration of few figures will
| give clear comprehension of the economy
! of alum baking powder If the bill intro
| duced in the Georgia Senate We're TO be-
come a law. it would mean that the only
baking powder that could be sod in this
state would be the kind known as cream
of tarter. II is a conservative estimate
to say that the annual sale in the state
of Georgia of baking powder containing
! exsiccated alum is not less than 2,500)J
/ pounds. The most of this powder is fur
nished by ourselves and other Georgia and
Virginia manufacturers, and is known as
One-Spoon baking powder, which means
that it takes one spoon to leaven quart
of -four, The consumer pays
ten cents pound for this
baking powder so that in round
numers it costs the people of the state
! $3.50, 900 year. AS everyone knows, who
! has used cream of tartar baking powder,
it is what is known as a two-spoon pow
der; In other words 1t takes two spoons of
it to leaven quart of flour and two
pounds of it would only go as far as one
pound of one-spoon alum baking powder
so that the people of this state would have
to buy sc 900 pounds of il to get the same
results as from 100000 pounds of alum
baking powder.
1.-The cream of tartar powder production
of the country is virtually controlled by
one concern, and their product goes 10 the
| consumer at so cents a pound; so that
! 100000 pounds would cost the people OF
the state 81, 5O0O 900 a year; in Other words
they would have 70 pay ten times as much
as they are now paying for baking pow
der, which would be an additional cost OF
81, 225, 900 year.
'It can be clearly seen that this ques-
ton transcends the private interests oil
! ourselves or any other manufacturers, and
that if the bill as introduced was to pass
it would cost the people of the state s2,000,-
600 10 $1,000 900 a year. We believe the
Senate Committee viii indorse the position
of the manufacturers of alum baking pow
der, that their product possesses the ex-
cellenee and economy we claim for IT,"