DONNA L. WOLF, 76, Humboldt, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at the Humboldt Care Center North. Those wishing to send online condolences can send them to mason@goldfieldaccess.net and we will see that it gets to the family. Be sure to put the deceased’s name in the subject line.
There are some things that America can take credit for creating, even though we are a “young nation.” Two things that come to mind are jazz music and quick breads. This week’s cook column includes the history of quick breads and some unusual quick bread recipes. The end of the 18th century saw the development of quick or chemically leavened breads. Before that time most bread was made with yeast or beer, or by beating air into the dough using eggs or egg whites. The first quick breads were made by using pearl ash, crude potassium carbonate that had been recrystallized to make it pure. The pearl ash produces carbon dioxide in the dough causing it to rise. By 1850, saleratus or potassium bicarbonate was replacing pearl ash in cookbooks and sodium bicarbonate (soda) soon replaced the potassium bicarbonate. Baking powder made its appearance in the 1880s and soda and baking powder are still used today.
JOHN F. JAQUA, 79, Humboldt, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at his home following a brief illness. Those wishing to send online condolences can send them to mason@goldfieldaccess.net and we will see that it gets to the family. Be sure to put the deceased’s name in the subject line.
MARJORIE O. LENNING, 90, Humboldt, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at the Humboldt County Memorial Hospital. Those wishing to send online condolences can send them to mason@goldfieldaccess.net and we will see that it gets to the family. Be sure to put the deceased’s name in the subject line.