Name: Recipe for Baking Powder
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon baking soda; ½ teaspoon cream of tartar; cornstarch

Recipe for Baking Powder

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
cornstarch

Directions

Sift the baking soda.
Add cornstarch and sift five times.
Add cream of tartar.
Mix thoroughly and sift six or seven times.
Store in a tin.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Recipe for Baking Powder