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Show What Baking Powder Does to Your Bread That modern methods of milling remove re-move from wheat flour the vitamines that are now believed to be essential to health is made certain by Drs. Carl Voegtlin, M. X. Sullivan and C. V. Myers in a recently Issued TJ. S. A. public health report Another point of importance In their reports ia that the peculiarities of dough made from these highly milled flours make neces- j i sary the use of much baking powder. j Plain bicarbonate of soda is often used as such, but the experiments conduct-, conduct-, ed by the authors prove that in baking bak-ing this separates, discharging carbon ! dioxide gas and remaining as carbon-j carbon-j ate In the bread. Now, carbonate of soda is highly alkaline, and the alkali I destroys the vitamines. If, however, buttermilk or tartnric acid be combin-ed combin-ed with the bicarbonate of soda it neutralizes neu-tralizes the alkali and protects the vitamines. |