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[Italiancook]

BakerAunt, several weeks ago, you posted a link for people who have kidney disease. It included a recipe for making non-phosphorous baking powder. One of the 2 ingredients is cream of tartar. It has taken me all these weeks to buy cream of tartar. My husband found it in a store today. Really small jar. In order to mix this concoction in a large enough quantity to be time-saving will take a few of these jars of cream of tartar. But I'll prevail making a one-serving portion for pancakes. If it works for them, I'll be willing to try it on baked goods. I'll post here on my experiment with it.

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• This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by Italiancook.

[Mike Nolan]

Check health food stores or places that sell spices in bulk, they usually have cream of tartar (aka tartaric acid) in bulk. Should be less than a dollar per ounce.

Bulkfoods.com has it in 1 pound packages for $8 or 5 pound packages for $25 (plus shipping), but those tiny containers are around $50 a pound!

[Italiancook]

Thanks, Mike, for checking on this. If the pancake experiment works out, I'll order it from bulkfoods.com. As you pointed out, buying those little jars in quantity would be quite expensive. I appreciate your effort!

[Italiancook]

This morning I made cinnamon pancakes substituting cream of tartar and baking soda for baking powder. I felt like a chemist measuring out the substitutions! Yes, the tartar/soda combo work good as a leavening. Even the last batch of pancakes rose satisfactorily. Normally, I make one skillet of pancakes & put the remainder of the batter into the refrig for another day. I don't think I could do this with tartar/soda. The batter developed bubbles while I was waiting for pancakes to cook. I think that if I refrigerated the batter, the soda would have lost it's potency overnight. I didn't want to experiment to find out for fear of losing the batter. It's just a guess.

Now that I know this works, I'm going to order cream of tartar in bulk. Thanks, again,, for the online tip, Mike.

[Italiancook]

Thanks, Mike, for suggesting bulkfoods.com for the cream of tartar. I bought a pound from them. That should last me a long time, since the cream of tartar is mixed with baking soda to replicate baking powder. Bulkfoods.com offers an array of shipping options. I chose the least expensive and it still arrived fast -- or in a reasonable amount of time to me. Others may have a different concept of "fast."

[wonky]

Did you know that cream of tartar is a by-product of wine making. After the wine making process, it is scraped off the sides of the wine barrels, cleaned and ground. Arn't you glad you asked?

[Italiancook]

Well, drat! If it wasn't "cleaned," I could tell people their baked goods have a secret ingredient -- wine. Thanks, Wonky, that's an interesting tidbit.

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