Corn bread and biscuits were staples of Southern cuisine in Arkansas.
Biscuits and cornbread were staples in Arkansas homes, restaurants and hotels. Early biscuit recipes called for cream of tartar or saleratus (baking soda) until baking powder came along in the 1850s. Adulteration of all three of those products became a problem, and companies like the Royal Baking Powder proudly advertised theirs was not. Biscuits and corn bread were frugal and fairly easy ways to fill empty bellies, and flour
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