Food chemistry and cookery,

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Author / Creator:Halliday, Evelyn G. (Evelyn Gertrude), 1877-1959.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press [c1943]
Description:x, 346 pages, 2 plates illustrations 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3289327
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Other authors / contributors:Noble, Isabel T. (Isabel Tilton), 1900-2000.
Physical medium:8vo.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Other form:Online version: Halliday, Evelyn Gertrude. Food chemistry and cookery. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press [1943]
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • Laboratory facilities required
  • Classification of experiments according to laboratory requirement
  • Recording data
  • II. The chemistry of vegetable cookery
  • Pigments, sulphur compounds, and acids
  • Retention of calcium, phosphorus, and ascorbic acid by different methods of cooking
  • Retention of color, flavor, and odor by different methods of cooking
  • Chemical and histological changes in the cell membrane of vegetables during cooking
  • III. Food preservation
  • IV. Pectic substances and fruit jellies
  • V. The chemistry of milk
  • VI. Beef muscle
  • VII. Fats
  • The fatty acids
  • Rancidity of fats
  • Identification of fats
  • Shortening-power
  • Use of various fats in cakes
  • VIII. Technique in the preparation of muffins, biscuits, cakes, and pastry
  • IX. The chemistry of baking powders and their use in baking
  • X. Characteristics of general-purpose and cake flours and their use in baking
  • XI. Egg-white foams
  • XII. Factors affecting crystallization in candy-making
  • XIII. Chemical and physical characteristics of ice-cream
  • XIV. Determination of hydrogen-ion concentration
  • Electrometric methods
  • Clark and Lub's indicator method
  • XV. Determination of calcium and phosphorus
  • Ashing of vegetable material
  • Determination of calcium by the McCrudden method
  • Determination of phosphorus by the Fiske and Subbarow method
  • Determination using a Duboscq colorimeter
  • Determination using a single-cell photoelectric colorimeter
  • XVI. Determination of ascorbic acid in vegetables and fruits
  • Extraction, using Waring blendor
  • Extraction by hand grinding
  • Determination, using a photoelectric colorimeter
  • Determination by titration with 2, 6-Dichlorophenolindophenol.