How To Bake Without Baking Powder: modern and historical alternatives for light and tasty baked goods

by Leigh Tate

Overview

Covers the science and history of baking powder, enabling you to create your own leavening power through basic kitchen chemistry. Includes how to make sour milk, buttermilk, and sourdough starter, plus the author's hardwood ash baking experiments. The recipes and science behind them will be of interest to homesteaders, preppers, do-it-yourselfers, homeschoolers, living historians, and historical reenactors. Contains a glossary, a list of resources, and 54 modern and historical recipes utilizing 20 different baking powder alternatives. Also available for Kindle and in paperback.

Originally an eBook, this "prepper" edition supplies a hardcopy version of How To Bake Without Baking Powder for the homesteading preparedness library. The information will always be available even when electronic devices are not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780989711135
Publisher:	Geraldine Leigh Tate
Publication date:	07/29/2016
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Leigh Tate and her husband Dan homestead five acres in the foothills of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Their goals are simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living, and a return to agrarian values. In addition to critter keeping, gardening, food preservation, cheese making, and woodstove cookery, Leigh loves to write about homesteading. She is the author of 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, aneBook series entitled The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos, and Critter
Tales: What my homestead critters have taught me about themselves, their world, and how to be a part of it. Her ongoing homestead adventures can be read at her blog, 5 Acres & A Dream The Blog.

Table of Contents

What is Baking Powder?

Baking Soda (The Alkali)

Cream of Tartar (The Acid)

Common Kitchen Substitutes for Cream of Tartar

How To Make Sour Milk

Buttermilk: Cultured Versus Traditional

How To Make Cultured Buttermilk

Cocoa Powder: Natural Versus Dutch

Not So Common Kitchen Substitutes for Cream of Tartar

How To Make Sourdough Starter

Are There Substitutes for Baking Soda?

Baker's Ammonia (Hartshorn)

Before There Was Baking Soda: Potash, Pearlash, & Saleratus

Hardwood Ashes

Experiments in Baking with Wood Ash

Ash Water Vs. Lye Water Vs. Lye Water: Are They All the Same?

Other Historical Leaveners

What About Eggs?

The Little Things Matter