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In 1859, Horsford and George Wilson formed the Rumford Chemical Works, named in honor of Count Rumford. In 1861, Horsford published The theory and art of breadmaking: A new process without the use of ferment, describing his innovations. In 1864, he obtained a patent for a self-rising flour or "Bread preparation" in which calcium acid phosphate and sodium bicarbonate acted as a leavener. [3] :36–44 [23] Royal Baking Powder (1942). A Guide to Royal Success in Baking (PDF). Standard Brands Incorporated. p.4 . Retrieved 26 January 2019. The Royal Baking Powder Company was one of the largest producers of baking powder in the United States. The Royal Baking Powder is still marketed today. Jampel, Sarah (May 11, 2016). "Is This Ingredient the Secret to the Best Biscuits of Your Life?!". Food52 . Retrieved 29 January 2019. If I were to make this recipe again, I would either make my own baking powder and make the recipe as is, or use store bought baking powder and reduce the amount called for in the recipe by at least 1 teaspoon.

Initially in partnership as Biddle & Hoagland, the Hoaglands moved from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Chicago, leaving Biddle behind, and then to New York. They incorporated there as the Royal Baking Powder Company in 1868. Various battles for control ensued between the Hoagland brothers and their one-time employee William Ziegler. Finally, on March 2, 1899, Ziegler established the New Jersey-based Royal Baking Powder Corporation which combined the three major cream of tartar baking powder companies then in existence in the United States: Dr. Price (Ziegler), Royal (Joseph Hoagland) and Cleveland (Cornelius Nevius Hoagland). [3] Alum-based baking powders [ edit ] Store this Royal Tea Bread in an airtight tin for up to a week, it stays fresh for quite a long time. The first type of baking powder, a single-acting formula, was developed in England in 1843 by Alfred Bird. Bird was a chemist and food manufacturer. He was looking to create a leavening agent free of yeast and eggs because his wife, Elizabeth, was allergic to both. He came across the idea of combining baking soda with tartaric acid (cream of tartar, which is a by-product of wine-making), which would bubble up when water was added. To make it shelf stable, he added starch to the mixture to absorb the ambient moisture and prevent it from reacting when it wasn’t in use. Bird’s baking powder, however, was used mainly by the British army rather than home bakers, and Bird never bothered to patent his product. (In 1845, another Englishman, Henry Jones, used Bird’s baking powder formula to create another baking staple for home bakers: self-rising flour. That may be a topic for another blog post.)

McGee, Harold (2004). On Food and Cooking (reviseded.). Scribner-Simon & Schuster. p.534. ISBN 9781416556374 . Retrieved 2009-08-12.

By providing a second rise in the oven, double-acting baking powders increase the reliability of baked goods by rendering the time elapsed between mixing and baking less critical. This is the type of baking powder most widely available to consumers today. Double-acting baking powders work in two phases; once when cold, and once when hot. [9] a b c d Jones, Paul R. (18 July 2013). "Justus Von Liebig, Eben Horsford and the Development of the Baking Powder Industry". Ambix. 40 (2): 65–74. doi: 10.1179/amb.1993.40.2.65. PMID 29185890.Earle, Rebecca (October 27, 2016). "How to make Victoria Sponge the way Queen Victoria would have eaten it". The Conversation . Retrieved 25 January 2019. a b Corriher, S.O. (2008). BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes. Scribner. ISBN 9781416560838 . Retrieved 2014-10-25. Several recipes in the compilation cookbook Practical American Cookery (1855) used baking soda and cream of tartar to form new types of dough. There were recipes for a "crust" similar to modern dumplings or cobbler, several for cakes, and one for "soda doughnuts". [3] :24–25 When the third edition of Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book appeared in 1858, it included 8 types of leaveners, only two of which could be made at home. [3] :31–32 Other subcategories exist to classify the reaction rated during mixing and holding called “Dough Reaction Rate (DRR)” and during baking at a given temperature denominated “Batter Reaction Rate (BRR)”. [16]

Alternately, a commercial baking powder might use sodium acid pyrophosphate as one of the two acidic components instead of sodium aluminium sulfate. The effectiveness of such leavenings varied widely. Resulting baked goods often had a sour or bitter taste. Breads were made of grain, water, yeast, and sometimes salt. Cooks also made yeast, sponge and pound cakes. Yeast cakes were similar to breads but included fancier ingredients, like sugar, spices, fruits or nuts. Sponge cakes used beaten egg whites for leavening. Pound cakes combined butter, sugar, and flour and eggs, and were particularly dense. Making cakes was even more laborious than making bread: to prepare a cake, a manservant might have to beat the ingredients together as long as an hour. [3] Pearlash [ edit ] a b "A Guide to Chemical Leaveners, Lallemand Baking Update, Vol. 1 No. 12, 1996" (PDF). Lallemand Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-03-03 . Retrieved 2009-03-05. as a leavening agent, and albumen. [3] :83–85 In 1899, after years of experimentation with various possible formulae beginning in the 1870s, Herman Hulman of Terre Haute also introduced a baking powder made with sodium aluminium sulfate. He called his baking powder Clabber, referencing a German baking tradition in which soured milk was used for leavening. [3] :92–95 Cream of tartar vs. alum [ edit ] In Memory of J. C. Hoagland. Directors of the Royal Baking Powder Company Take Action". New York Times. December 10, 1899 . Retrieved 2011-05-01. As a mark of respect to the late Joseph C. Hoagland, who had for more than thirty years acted as President of the Royal Baking Powder Company, ...The third type of leavening, pearlash, was the precursor to modern baking powder. Pearlash was a purified form of potash. It was first used as a leavening agent by Native Americans and was the subject of the first patent in the United States, issued in April 1790. [17] Its preparation was time-consuming, but could be accomplished by a housewife with a cast-iron kettle: it involved soaking fireplace ashes in water to make lye, and then boiling the lye to remove water and obtain "salts". [3]