Bogus Baking Powder Tests

Tíather ingenious but not less fraudulent are the pretended tests of baking powder being made ia many of oür íitchens by agents who are trying to Eurther the sale of a Chicago article. These so-called tests consist in mixing separatelj , with water, a sample of the baking powder found in the house and of that carried by the agent. From that found in the house, if a pure arcicle, the bubbles of gas will rise and burst on top like those from a glass of champaigne. The Chicago baking powder which they carry, when mixed witli water, will show an extra froth upon the top ot the mixture which is claimed as evidence of superionty. On the contrary, however, it is not only the exhibition of a trick, but is absolute proof that the baking powder which so acts is adulterated. The chemists have ascertained ;that the adulterant used is a chemical added for the express purpose of produciug this aetion and deceiving house-keepers as to the true value of the baking powder. This is not only a dishonest trick, but a dirty one, for the chemical is the product ot the Blthy reïuse of the slaughter house, and if this bakiug powder i used in the preparation of food passes into the biscuit or cake without change. Of course, any statements made in reference to other baking powders, by parties caught in practising such tncks as tliese for the purpose of deceiving the public, will be entitled to no credit. It is probably wisest in the interest of our families, and to prevent our food from being contamiuated by tramps of this kind, to turn all persons who wish or attempt to tamper with it uncerimoniously from the door, and to use those articles only which experience has proved satisfactory, or the official tests have established as pure and wholesome.