cream of tartar
Potassium hydrogen tartrate, a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder…Potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Potassium hydrogen tartrate (also called potassium bitartrate), a byproduct of wine manufacture, used in baking powder and in cooking to stabilize beaten egg whites.
Weinstein
a salt used especially in baking powder
Examples
2 sentencesMix eight grams of alum with seven grams of cream of tartar in a small amount of hot water.
You can add cream of tartar to baking soda if you're out of baking powder, but it won't work as well.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
Synonyms
3 synonyms- a salt used especially in baking powder:tartarpotassium bitartratepotassium hydrogen tartrate
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.