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  2. Lead-glazed earthenware - Wikipedia

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    Coloured lead glazes [1] are shiny and either translucent or opaque after firing. Three other traditional techniques are tin-glazed (in fact this is lead glaze with a small amount of tin added), which coats the ware with an opaque white glaze suited for overglaze brush-painted colored enamel designs; salt glaze pottery , also often stoneware ...

  3. Tin-glazing - Wikipedia

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    Tin-glaze is plain lead glaze with a small amount of tin oxide added. [1] The opacity and whiteness of tin glaze encourage its frequent decoration. Historically this has mostly been done before the single firing, when the colours blend into the glaze, but since the 17th century also using overglaze enamels, with a light second firing, allowing ...

  4. Baking powder - Wikipedia

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    Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid. The base and acid are prevented from reacting prematurely by the inclusion of a buffer such as cornstarch. Baking powder is used to increase the volume and lighten the texture of baked goods.

  5. List of food additives - Wikipedia

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    Baking powder – leavening agent; includes acid and base; Baking soda – food base; Balm, lemon – Balm oil – Balsam of Peru – used in food and drink for flavoring; Barberry – Barley flour – Basil (Ocimum basilicum) – Basil extract – Bay leaves – Beeswax – glazing agent; Beet red – color (red) Beetroot red – color (red)

  6. Sancai - Wikipedia

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    Sancai is a type of lead-glazed earthenware: lead oxide was the principal flux in the glaze, often mixed with quartz in the proportion of 3:1. [6] The polychrome effect was obtained by using as colouring agents copper (which turns green), iron (which turns brownish yellow), and less often manganese and cobalt (which turns blue).

  7. Essential Pantry Ingredients for Baking - AOL

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    Planning on baking cookies, cake, cupcakes, or pie? ... Essential Pantry Ingredients for Baking. AOL.com Editors. Updated October 16, 2017 at 4:33 PM. Essential Pantry Ingredients for Baking.

  8. Ceramic flux - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The most commonly used fluxing oxides in a ceramic glaze contain lead, sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, barium, zinc, strontium, and manganese. These are introduced to the raw glaze as compounds, for example lead as lead oxide. Boron is considered by many to be a glass former rather than a flux.

  9. How Your Baking Pan's Color Can Affect Your Baked Goods

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    The video shows the various effects light and dark pans have on cookies, cakes, and brownies.