FoodNet

The art of cooking

1880

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Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The most eminent chemists of Europe and America, as one man, condemn the use of alum in articles of food as a prolific cause of physical de- rangement and disease. Its use in bread-making is forbidden by law in England, France and Germany. Official reports in this country condemn alum in any form as an adulteration for articles of food, and public opinion has so far been aroused that a bill to prohibit its use in the manufacture of baking powders has been introduced in the legislature, and none too soon, for it is a startling fact that a large proportion of the baking powders sold loose or in bulk, and many of the powders in cans, are made with alum. In striking contrast with the effects of alum-made materials, are those of the same articles raised by means of cream of tartar baking powder. Pure grape cream of tartar baking powder has no equal as a preparation for making the most delicious and healthful biscuits, cake, pastry, pud- dings, etc., and it is with great pleasure we assure our readers that we know Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder, manufactured at Albany, N. Y., sold only in quarter, half, and one pound tin cans, is perfectly pure and wholesome. It has long been well and favorably known, and every cook who gives it a trial will use no other kind. The most exhaustive chemical analyses of the ablest scientific men in various parts of the country, as well as the Brooklyn Board of Health in their recent investigation on this subject, have corroborated the fact that Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder is made of . the purest grape cream of tartar, is entirely free from adulteration of any kind, and is a most healthful and desirable article. — Troy(ii, Y.) Times. MILES' PREMIUM BAKING POWDER Has no equal for Purity, Strength, and Uniform Excellence. It is composed of the Purest and Best materials that can be pro- duced in the Laboratory of the Chemist, and we challenge the Chemists of the World to find One Grain of Alum or any other injurious ingredient in its composition. A FEW OF OUR MANY TESTIMONIALS. • BUREAU OF EXPERIMENT 9t CHEMICAL LABORATORY, 417 Walnut St., Philadblphia, January 31, 1879. I have purchased saniptes of "Miles' Prbmium Baking Powder^' from Messrs. Wybth & Brc, Messrs. Mitchell & Fletcher and E. Bradford Clarke, and made analyses of them. I find them to be free from alum or other delecterious or unwholesome ingredients, and to be compounded from pure and suitable materials. CHARLES M. CRESSON, M.D. Philadelphia, February 4, 1879. Messrs. B. H. Miles & Co., Dgar Sirs : — We have sold your " Premium Baking Powdbb " for two years, and it gfives us pleasure to say that it has given entire satisfac- tion. In fact, we have really never had a single complaint of it. JOHN WYETH & BRO., Manufacturing Chemists, 14x2 Walnut Street. CONTINENTAL HOTEL, Philadelphia, February 4, 1879. £. H. MiLBS & Co., Dear,^irs .'—It gives us pleasure to state that we have used " Miles Premium BakingPowder " for the last two years, and have found it. in ever^ respect, what it is represented to be, and can recommend it very cordially as a penectly pure and wholesome Baking Powder. J. E. KINGSLEY & CO., Proprietors. MONMOUTH HOUSE, A CARLTON, Spring Lake, A BEACH, Sea Giirt,N.J. Spring Lakb, N. J., August 38, 1879. Messrs. E. H. Milbs & Co., Gentlemen :r-lt is with great pleasure that I testify to the excellence of your ^^ Premium Baking Powder." It has given perfect satisfac- tion in all m^ houses, superseding everything else in my estimation of like nature. I desire nothing better in uie Baking Powder line. Yours, Very truly Seasons of Z878-79. L. U. MALTBY, Proprietor. What Miss DODS Says: 80 WiLLouGHBV St., Brooklyn, N. Y. April a, 1879. E. H. Milbs & Co.,