Homemade Baking Powder

[cwcdesign]

Who knew! I sure didn't. This blurb is from The NY Times

The secret to making Edna Lewis's recipe for ethereal, flannel-soft biscuits is to use a homemade baking soda -- two parts cream of tartar sifted with one part baking soda -- so there's no chance of a metallic aftertaste in the dough. She calls for lard, too, which is excellent if you can find the creamy white variety usually labeled "leaf lard," but if you have only butter, so be it. They'll still be among the best biscuits you've ever had.

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[Mike Nolan]

That will not be a double-acting baking powder, for that you need something that doesn't start to generate gas until it is heated.

They write as if leaf lard is something you can find in a grocery store, not in any grocery store I've been in over the last 20 years!

[navlys]

Did you make the biscuits?

[cwcdesign]

No, I just saw the article and thought it was interesting. I'm not necessarily known for my light touch 🙄

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