Article: Correct ingredients make a measurable difference ; Too much baking powder spoils Lillian LaChance's Baking Powder Biscuits.

Deborah Sayer news assistant
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
08-21-2003
Correct ingredients make a measurable difference ; Too much baking powder spoils Lillian LaChance's Baking Powder Biscuits.
Byline: Deborah Sayer news assistant
Edition: York
Section: Your Neighbors
Column: What's Cooking

Do you know what happens when you add 4 tablespoons of baking powder to a recipe for biscuits that actually calls for only 4 teaspoons? You get hardtack - a rock-hard biscuit that was once a staple for seafarers heading out on long ocean voyages.

That's right folks! In my Aug. 7 cooking column interview with Biddeford resident Lillian LaChance, I went a tad overboard on the measurements in a recipe for ...

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