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Baking Powders

Baking powders are now so well and frequently prepared by good makers, and can be bought readily in large or small packets, that it is almost needless to give instructions for making them. For the benefit of those, however, who prefer home-made preparations, the following recipe is given, and will be found both excellent and economic:--Crush half a pound of tartaric acid to a fine powder, and mix with it three-quarters of a pound of carbonate of soda and three-quarters of a pound of ground rice. Put the mixture into a tin box, and store it in a dry place. When wanted, use a heaped tea-spoonful of the powder with each pound of material. Probable cost, 10d. per pound.