5 thoughts on “Saltair: For all your swimming and baking needs”

1. This would make a cute framed picture in a ‘crafty” kitchen or modge podged on to a table or something. I’m not willing to do that myself, but I have seen items in magazines or stores or people’s houses that are created with pictures like this. I can’t even spell it. I think it is adorable.

2. That’s a fun idea, Maurine!

3. I’m a food history nerd, so this sent me looking for whether Saltair baking powder was a “traditional” (i.e., using cream of tartar) or “modern” (i.e., using aluminum salts) version; the traditional version was more expensive, but the modern (first developed ~1877) version was cheaper and more stable.

   Massive advertising was undertaken by the Royal Baking Powder Company in particular to claim both culinary and health benefits of aluminum-free baking powders, which is how I found an ad from 1899 that lists “Salt Air Baking Powder” as one of the brands sold in Denver that was to be avoided due to its aluminum content.

   Intriguingly, the concerns over aluminum in baking powder were pretty much gone by early in the twentieth century, only to be revived more recently with claims that baking powders containing aluminum leave a metallic taste (based largely on a single taste test conducted by a television program in 2005) and that aluminum may promote the development of Alzheimer’s Disease (based on studies from the 1970s that haven’t really held up).

4. I am astounded. I’m frequently amazed by the depth that readers can add to a post that seems simple or silly or funny or otherwise just a bit of distraction for the day — but where you have taken this one, David B, through time and such a range of connections, is astounding!

   The only difficulty is that you know I’m going to expect this of you every time there’s a food-related advertisement … and you know I’m going to be looking for more. 😀

5. I blush!

   But yeah, everybody’s got their thing, i suppose—mine just happens to be food. 🙂

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