Baking powder, the Glossary

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1. 90 relations: Acid, Acid salt, Acid–base reaction, Alfred Bird, Alum, American Chemical Society, American Civil War, American Cookery, Ammonium carbonate, August Oetker, Baker's yeast, Bakewell Cream, Bangor, Maine, Barm, Base (chemistry), Benjamin Thompson, Bicarbonate, British Army, Buttermilk, Calumet Baking Powder Company, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, Carbonate, Citrus, Clabber (food), Clabber Girl, Cook's Country, Corn starch, Crimean War, Cup (unit), Deprotonation, Dicalcium phosphate, Disodium pyrophosphate, Double salt, Dr. Oetker, Eben Norton Horsford, Egg white, Fermentation, Flour, Hartshorn, Henry Jones (baker), Honey, Hulman & Company, Hydrogen, James Beard, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Joseph C. Hoagland, Justus von Liebig, Leavening agent, Lemon, ... Expand index (40 more) »

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Acid

An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.

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Acid salt

Acid salts are a class of salts that produce an acidic solution after being dissolved in a solvent.

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Acid–base reaction

In chemistry, an acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base.

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Alfred Bird

Alfred Bird (1811 – 15 December 1878) was an English food manufacturer and chemist.

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Alum

An alum is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double sulfate salt of aluminium with the general formula, such that is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium.

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American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Cookery

American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, is the first known cookbook written by an American, published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1796.

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Ammonium carbonate

Ammonium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula. Baking powder and Ammonium carbonate are leavening agents.

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August Oetker

August Oetker (January 6, 1862 – January 10, 1918) was a German inventor, food scientist and business person.

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Baker's yeast

Baker's yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise (expand and become lighter and softer) by converting the fermentable sugars present in the dough into carbon dioxide and ethanol. Baking powder and Baker's yeast are leavening agents.

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Bakewell Cream

Bakewell Cream is a variety of baking powder developed by Bangor, Maine chemist Byron H. Smith in response to a shortage of cream of tartar in the U.S. during World War II.

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Bangor, Maine

Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

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Barm

Barm, also called ale yeast, is the foam or scum formed on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer, wine, or feedstock for spirits or industrial ethanol distillation. Baking powder and Barm are leavening agents.

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Base (chemistry)

In chemistry, there are three definitions in common use of the word "base": Arrhenius bases, Brønsted bases, and Lewis bases.

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Benjamin Thompson

Colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (March 26, 1753August 21, 1814) was an American-born British military officer, scientist, inventor and nobleman.

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Bicarbonate

In inorganic chemistry, bicarbonate (IUPAC-recommended nomenclature: hydrogencarbonate) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Buttermilk

Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink.

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Calumet Baking Powder Company

The Calumet Baking Powder Company was an American food company established in 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, by salesman William Monroe Wright to manufacture baking powder.

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Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Carbonate

A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Clabber (food)

Clabber is a type of soured milk.

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Clabber Girl

Clabber Girl is an American brand of baking powder, baking soda, and corn starch popular in the United States.

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Cook's Country

Cook's Country is an American half-hour television cooking show on public television stations and Create and distributed by American Public Television.

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Corn starch

Cornflour, cornstarch, maize starch, or corn starch (American English) is the starch derived from corn (maize) grain.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Cup (unit)

The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.

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Deprotonation

Deprotonation (or dehydronation) is the removal (transfer) of a proton (or hydron, or hydrogen cation), (H+) from a Brønsted–Lowry acid in an acid–base reaction.

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Dicalcium phosphate

Dicalcium phosphate is the calcium phosphate with the formula CaHPO4 and its dihydrate. The "di" prefix in the common name arises because the formation of the HPO42– anion involves the removal of two protons from phosphoric acid, H3PO4. It is also known as dibasic calcium phosphate or calcium monohydrogen phosphate.

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Disodium pyrophosphate

Disodium pyrophosphate or sodium acid pyrophosphate (SAPP) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Double salt

A double salt is a salt that contains two or more different cations or anions.

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Dr. Oetker

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Eben Norton Horsford

Eben Norton Horsford (July 27, 1818 – January 1, 1893) was an American scientist who taught agricultural chemistry in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard from 1847 to 1863.

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Egg white

Egg white is the clear liquid (also called the albumen or the glair/glaire) contained within an egg.

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Fermentation

Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substances through the action of enzymes.

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Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.

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Hartshorn

Hartshorn is the antler of male red deer.

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Henry Jones (baker)

Henry Jones (c. 1812 – 12 July 1891) was a baker in Bristol, England, who was responsible in 1845 for inventing self-raising flour.

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Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees.

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Hulman & Company

Hulman & Company is an American private, family-owned, company founded in 1850 by Francis T. Hulman as a wholesale foods supplier of groceries, tobacco, and liquor, headquartered in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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James Beard

James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 23, 1985) was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality.

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Jean-Antoine Chaptal

Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup (5 June 1756 – 29 July 1832) was a French chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist.

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Joseph C. Hoagland

Joseph Christoffel Hoagland (June 19, 1841 – December 8, 1899, Manhattan) was the first president of the Royal Baking Powder Company.

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Justus von Liebig

Justus Freiherr (Baron) von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.

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Leavening agent

In cooking, a leavening agent or raising agent, also called a leaven or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture. Baking powder and leavening agent are leavening agents.

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Lemon

The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India (Assam), Northern Myanmar, and China.

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Leopold McClintock

Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (8 July 1819 – 17 November 1907) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Louis Nicolas Vauquelin

Louis Nicolas Vauquelin FRS(For) HFRSE (16 May 1763 – 14 November 1829) was a French pharmacist and chemist.

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Ludwig Clamor Marquart

Ludwig Clamor Marquart (29 March 1804 – 10 May 1881) was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur born in Osnabrück.

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Lye

A lye is an alkali metal hydroxide.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monocalcium phosphate

Monocalcium phosphate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(H2PO4)2 ("AMCP" or "CMP-A" for anhydrous monocalcium phosphate).

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National Historic Chemical Landmarks

The National Historic Chemical Landmarks program was launched by the American Chemical Society in 1992 to recognize significant achievements in the history of chemistry and related professions.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Potash

Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Potassium bicarbonate

Potassium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: potassium hydrogencarbonate, also known as potassium acid carbonate) is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula KHCO3.

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Potassium bitartrate

Potassium bitartrate, also known as potassium hydrogen tartrate, with formula KC4H5O6, is a chemical compound with a number of uses. Baking powder and potassium bitartrate are leavening agents.

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Potassium carbonate

Potassium carbonate is the inorganic compound with the formula K2CO3. Baking powder and Potassium carbonate are leavening agents.

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Potato starch

Potato starch is starch extracted from potatoes.

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Pound cake

Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.

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Quick bread

Quick bread is any bread leavened with a chemical leavening agent rather than a biological one like yeast or sourdough starter.

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Royal Baking Powder Company

The Royal Baking Powder Company was one of the largest producers of baking powder in the United States.

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast or baker's yeast) is a species of yeast (single-celled fungal microorganisms). Baking powder and Saccharomyces cerevisiae are leavening agents.

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Smelling salts

Smelling salts, also known as ammonia inhalants, spirit of hartshorn or sal volatile, are chemical compounds used as stimulants to restore consciousness after fainting.

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Smithsonian (magazine)

Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.

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Soda bread

Soda bread is a variety of quick bread made in many cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as "baking soda", or in Ireland, "bread soda") is used as a leavening agent instead of yeast.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Sodium alum

Sodium aluminium sulfate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula NaAl(SO4)2·12H2O (sometimes written Na2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O).

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Sodium aluminium phosphate

Sodium aluminium phosphate (SAlP) describes the inorganic compounds consisting of sodium salts of aluminium phosphates.

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Sodium bicarbonate

Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogencarbonate), commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. Baking powder and sodium bicarbonate are leavening agents.

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Soured milk

Soured milk denotes a range of food products produced by the acidification of milk.

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Sponge cake

Sponge cake is a light cake made with eggs, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder.

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Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry is the relationship between the weights of reactants and products before, during, and following chemical reactions.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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Tartaric acid

Tartaric acid is a white, crystalline organic acid that occurs naturally in many fruits, most notably in grapes but also in tamarinds, bananas, avocados, and citrus.

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Teaspoon

A teaspoon (tsp.) is an item of cutlery.

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Terre Haute, Indiana

Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about east of the state's western border with Illinois.

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Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, Massachusetts, and in Talloires.

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Vinegar

Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace compounds that may include flavorings.

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William Ziegler (industrialist)

William Ziegler Sr. (September 1, 1843 – May 25, 1905) was an American industrialist who was one of the founders of the Royal Baking Powder Company.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yeast

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. Baking powder and Yeast are leavening agents.

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Yogurt

Yogurt (from; also spelled yoghurt, yogourt or yoghourt) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.

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See also

Leavening agents

• Ammonium carbonate
• Baker's yeast
• Baking powder
• Barm
• Carl Griffith's sourdough starter
• Desem
• Fleischmann's Yeast
• Gal4 transcription factor
• Glucono delta-lactone
• Leavening agent
• List of microorganisms found in sourdough
• Potassium bitartrate
• Potassium carbonate
• Pre-ferment
• Proofing (baking technique)
• Red Star Yeast
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Sodium bicarbonate
• Sponge and dough
• Yeast

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baking_powder

Also known as Double acting baking powder.

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