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Old Posted May 1, 2013, 4:51 AM
CityBoyDoug CityBoyDoug is offline
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Wild accusations in old Los Angeles...

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge View Post
A few more Round House photos . . .


I could find only one contemporary reference to Capt. Hunter's brick house, in the November 12, 1853 Los Angeles Star:

USC Digital Library -
Evidently eminent baker Augustus Ulyard was very annoyed in 1853 when some competing bakers accused him of using "Saleratus" in his baked goods. Good grief...someone using Saleratus. Scandal!

Saleratus is baking soda and was generally considered a cheap substitute for yeast. Saleratus was a chalk-like powder used as a chemical leavener to produce carbon dioxide gas in dough. Often it was course and one could actually see flecks of the chalk in the bread.

I suppose things have improved since then. Today the big baker in Los Angeles is BIMBO, which is a... Mexican company with worldwide sales in the billions.

Thank you Flyingwedge for the clipping, most interesting.

Last edited by CityBoyDoug; May 1, 2013 at 5:08 AM.
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