While I love baking projects that challenge me and can keep me occupied for hours, sometimes it is all about speed and ease. Irish Soda Bread takes less effort to make than mashed potatoes and is made from ingredients that I always have on hand. This recipe is as comfortable to me as my old …
Beer Cupcakes with Beer Jelly Filling
My Tall Dark & Handsome has a sweet tooth, and don’t you know that one of my greatest pleasures in life is making that man smile. When I found this cupcake idea on Pinterest I thought they would be perfect for his sweet tooth, my beer tooth and our beer jelly. As expected the beer …
Baking soda III: Make Play Clay
Baking Soda I Baking Soda II Two years after Dr.Church’s retirement from Dwight and Co. Dr. Church helped his sons develop Church and Co. where they marketed their product under the name Arm and Hammer. Dwight and Co. and Church and Co., while in competition with each other, were still family. So in 1869 the …
Baking Soda II: America’s First Brand of Baking Soda
Baking Soda, part I: Sodium Bicarbonate Baking Soda, part II: Dwight & Co., America's first brand of baking soda. In 1839 doctor and chemist, Austin Church reasoned that he could profit from finding a way to mass produce saleratus (aerated salt). Church heated soda ash (sodium carbonate) over a wood-burning fire until the sodium carbonate …
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Baking Soda, part I: Sodium Bicarbonate
Sometimes the more mundane things in the kitchen can be overlooked, when really there is so much to say about them. There is as much information on baking soda as there are uses for it. I thought I might break it down for you….. Baking Soda, part I: Sodium Bicarbonate Baking soda, aka; sodium bicarbonate, …