Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — How Cheap Baking Powder Is Made. [ARTICLE]

How Cheap Baking Powder Is Made.

The Health Department of New York has seized a quantity of so-called cheap baking powder, which it found in that city. Attention was attracted to It by the low price at which it was being sold in the department stores. Samples were taken and the chemist of the Health Department reported the stuff to be composed chiefly of alum and pulverized rock. ' , The powder was declared to be dangerous to health, and several thousand pounds were carted to the offal dock and destroyed. It is unsafe to experiment with these so-called “cheap” articles of food. They are sure to be made from alum, rock, or other injurious matter. In baking powders, the high class, cream of tartar brands are the most e<<3nomlcal, because they go farther in use and axe healthful beyond question.