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  • Each pan he carried down to the water to wash, and as he went higher up the hill the pans grew richer, until he began to save the gold in an empty baking-powder can which he carried carelessly in his hip-pocket.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • Also, I filled the car with sacks of flour, baking-powder, tinned goods, and all the ordinary necessaries of life suggested by

    THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010

  • She had relied on a family cook to get simple all-American fare to the table, raising her brood on baking-powder biscuits, Welsh rabbit, and roast beef.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • She had relied on a family cook to get simple all-American fare to the table, raising her brood on baking-powder biscuits, Welsh rabbit, and roast beef.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • She, who had never cooked in her life, learned to make bread without the mediation of hops, yeast, or baking-powder, and to bake bread, top and bottom, in a frying-pan before an open fire.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

  • This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no baking-powder.

    The Mad God 2010

  • Each pan he carried down to the water to wash, and as he went higher up the hill the pans grew richer, until he began to save the gold in an empty baking-powder can which he carried carelessly in his hip-pocket.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • Reality: You can't substitute baking soda for baking powder, but you can make a baking-powder substitute, according to Arm & Hammer.

    Mastering the art of everyday cooking 2009

  • Reality: You can't substitute baking soda for baking powder, but you can make a baking-powder substitute, according to Arm & Hammer.

    Mastering the art of everyday cooking 2009

  • A connoisseur of simplicity, she refers to the baking-powder biscuit as "the little black dress of cooking," and hates the term gourmet.

    Authors: Dinner Without Arugula 2008

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