Baking Powder and Other Leavening Agents

New York: The Spice Mill Publishing Company, 1906. Hardcover. Green boards, title and illustration in gilt. Very good. 86 pages. 18 x 13 cm. Are you familiar with the "baking powder wars" that took place at the end of the 19th century? Baking powder had become a highly profitable product, with more than a hundred manufacturers springing up across the country. To win over home cooks still devoted to their old recipes, these companies published their own cookbooks and promotional pamphlets. This particular volume - annotated throughout by a keenly observant, and evidently hungry, reader - offers a scientific study of the product and its manufacture. Crisp, clean copy.