{"id":1611,"date":"2009-09-28T22:23:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2009-09-28T22:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:23:34","slug":"eating-ammonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/eating-ammonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating ammonium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jurvetson\/6627153\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/8\/6627153_b917bc176b_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jurvetson\/6627153\/\">Potion<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jurvetson\/\">jurvetson<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently baking a cake (<i>lagkage<\/i>) for L\u00e9on&#8217;s 4th birthday tomorrow, and given that I&#8217;m using a Danish recipe, it&#8217;s calling for <i>hjortetakssalt<\/i> to be used as the raising agent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen that for sale here, so I bought some last time I was in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the bag to see what&#8217;s in it, and it turns out simply to be another name for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ammonium_bicarbonate\">ammonium bicarbonate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That reminded me of the first time I brought a bag of Danish salt liquorice back to Collins, and people appeared shocked that we would happily eat something flavoured with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ammonium_chloride\">ammonium chloride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is ammonium just an indispensable part of Danish culinary culture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potion Originally uploaded by jurvetson I&#8217;m currently baking a cake (lagkage) for L\u00e9on&#8217;s 4th birthday tomorrow, and given that I&#8217;m using a Danish recipe, it&#8217;s calling for hjortetakssalt to be used as the raising agent. I&#8217;ve never seen that for sale here, so I bought some last time I was in Denmark. I checked the bag to see what&#8217;s in it, and it turns out simply to be another name for ammonium bicarbonate. That reminded me of the first time I brought a bag of Danish salt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}