How to Make Baking Powder

Got this recipe from Frugal Living

How to Make Baking Powder

Prep Time: 2 minutes

Ingredients:

* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
* 1 teaspoon corn starch (optional)

Preparation:

Mix the baking soda and cream of tartar together until well combined. Use immediately.

Yield: One tablespoon of baking powder.

To store baking powder: Add a teaspoon of corn starch to the mixture, and stir. This will absorb any moisture from the air, and prevent the baking powder from reacting before you need it. Store in an air-tight container.

Did You Know? Most commercially-produced baking powder contains aluminum--sodium aluminum sulfate to be exact. Make your own baking powder, and keep your baked goods aluminum-free.


*** Seems like a bit of a bother to make the ingredients for your ingredients until you get to the "did you know" bit. A little aluminium once in a while is all right, but not good to have regularly -- I'm kind of glad I don't eat commercially-made baked goods all the time...

Frugal Living's a pretty cool site. I don't have a use for everything there of course, but some of it's quite useful and they have lots of ideas on ways to save money.

Serenity (Firefly) Meme

Via various folks:

Your results:
You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)

Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 90% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 75% River (Stowaway) 75% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 70% Wash (Ship Pilot) 65% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 65% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 55% Inara Serra (Companion) 50% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 45% Alliance 35% A Reaver (Cannibal) 20%

Dependable and trustworthy. You love your significant other and you are a tough cookie when in a conflict.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...


If I changed Married to 'No', Zoe dropped to 4th position. Leaving Malcolm and River tied for first.... eek.

Snow update

Sunny out now, but very cold. We think the total for the weekend was 17" (drifting makes accurate measurements a little tricky).

[Edited for being stupid]
( icicle picture, back of house picture and pretty picture )

[Druid] That mystery druid/masonic button cover

I've been meaning to post this for the folks who are trying to figure out the origin of the mystery druid and/or masonic button cover/tie tack/mystery thing.

This is a picture of the back of the item, which may or may not provide a clue.



Original post about the pin here. There's a link to a picture of the pin in the comments in this post.