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Cooking & Baking

surrealAmerican

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4. Interestingly, this history is different in North America than it is in Europe.

Reply to Old Crank (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 5, 2026, 08:06 PM

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Baker's ammonia was not much used here (except by Scandinavian immigrants), and individual sachets of baking powder were not (and still are not) common.
What was common were recipe pamphlets put out by baking powder manufacturers, and competitive claims about the safety, or lack there of, of competing products.

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