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Flour Mixtures: Quick Breads: Proportions

PROPORTIONS OF SALT AND FLOUR. One-fourth a teaspoonful of salt is needed to each cup of flour, except when shortening that has been previously salted is used, when a little less is required.

PROPORTIONS OF BAKING POWDER AND FLOUR. Two level teaspoonfuls of banking powder to each cup of flour is needed, except in mixtures where eggs or much beating introduces air into the mixture (heated air expands, continued heat hardens the cell walls, and the finished product is lightened to a certain degree). In the beating of butter and sugar "to a cream" air is beaten into the mixture, but the greatest quantity of air is incorporated, when the whites and yolks of eggs are separated and air is beaten in to their full capacity of retention.