单词 | baker's salt |
释义 | > as lemmasbaker's salt baker's salt n. (also bakers' salt) (a) a powdered mineral substance, esp. an adulterant containing alum, added to bread to improve colour and add bulk (now historical); (b) ammonium carbonate, occasionally used as a raising agent in place of baking soda; (c) salt (sodium chloride) prepared for use in commercial bakery, esp. by enrichment with potassium iodide. ΚΠ 1814 Sun 29 July 4/2 The bakers of the metropolis were in the habit of using..a composition called Bakers' Salt, part of which was alum. 1828 T. Castle Lexicon Pharmaceuticum (ed. 2) 175 Sub-carbonate of Ammonia. Smelling salts. Baker's Salt. 1855 Adulteration Food, Drink, & Drugs 58 Bakers' stuff, or bakers' salt, as it is called, is salt mixed with alum. 1964 K. H. Schütte Biol. Trace Elem. 98 (caption) Incidence of goitre in schoolchildren before and four years after the institution of prophylaxis with iodized baker's salt. 2006 A. E. Altmann Seven Swabians 267 There are two ingredients in it [sc. German honey cake] that are not normally found in North American grocery stores: the baker's salt or hartshorn salt..which is carbonate of ammonia, and the potash.., which is potassium carbonate. 2015 M. de la Guardia & S. Garrigues Handbk. Min. Elem. in Food xxiii. 570/1 The main carrier for iodine in the Netherlands is the salt added to bread (i.e. baker's salt), which has been enriched with iodine since 1942. < as lemmas |
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