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cream of tartar
Word definitions for cream of tartar in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cream \Cream\ (kr[=e]m), n. [F. cr[^e]me, perh. fr. LL. crema cream of milk; cf. L. cremor thick juice or broth, perh. akin to cremare to burn.] The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a salt used especially in baking powder [syn: tartar , potassium hydrogen tartrate ]
Usage examples of cream of tartar.
Also, a tablespoon in place of cream of tartar in meringue makes it beautifully high.
This man I had given a few doses of flowers of sulphur and cream of tartar and directed that he should take the cold bath every morning.
Club moss and seaweed, which contain alum, were also available to the home dyer, and where old wine barrels were accessible, the cream of tartar could be scraped from the inside of the barrels and added to the dyebath.
She had to make her own baking powder from soda and cream of tartar before mixing a batch of biscuits.
They know about things like cream of tartar, except they probably call it something different.
We had already ascribed it to his diet of roots, and had recommended his living on fish and flesh, and using the cold bath every morning, with a dose of cream of tartar or flowers of sulphur every third day.
He ached in every joint of his body, and his head pounded with the effects of the sun and the glare until he thought his skull would pop likea ripe cream of tartar pod on a baobab tree.
All parts of the plant, but especially the flowering tops, yield a good yellow dye, and from the earliest times have been used by dyers for producing this colour, especially for wool: combined with woad, an excellent green is yielded, the colour being fixed with alum, cream of tartar and sulphate of lime.