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- n. While this term is, in the United States, generally understood to mean one of the baking-powder mixture's used as substitutes for yeast, it has been sometimes applied to yeast itself obtained as a result of alcoholic fermentation, freed from water by pressure, washed with acetone and then with ether, and dried in pulverulent form by spreading it out on absorbent paper at ordinary temperature.
- n. A substitute for yeast used for leavening bread, consisting of a preparation of soda, phosphates, and other substances, in the form of powder; a baking-powder.
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“Six eggs, six tablespoonfuls of flour, one quart of milk, two teaspoonfuls of yeast-powder.”
“Their way lay along the flank of Table Mountain, — a wandering trail through a tangled solitude that might have seemed virgin and unbroken but for a few oyster-cans, yeast-powder tins, and empty bottles that had been apparently stranded by the “first low wash” of pioneer waves.”
“Mrs. Downs's bread had yellow specks of saleratus in it, and was very different from Wealthy's delicious loaves; but they were too hungry to criticise, though Eyebright shook her head over it, and thought with satisfaction of the big parcel of yeast-powder which she and Wealthy had packed up.”
“Their way lay along the flank of Table Mountain, -- a wandering trail through a tangled solitude that might have seemed virgin and unbroken but for a few oyster-cans, yeast-powder tins, and empty bottles that had been apparently stranded by the "first low wash" of pioneer waves.”
“Gracious, Cecil, does he feed on yeast-powder to make him 'rise' so?”
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