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Does Raw Cookie Dough Rise in Your Stomach?
Is that why I feel so sick?
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What's the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder?
Two mysterious white powders.
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Leavening bread with honey only?
You should be able to use raw honey straight from the comb as the leavening agent, skipping any collection step. It accumulates all the familiar yeasty beasties during its curing, and at least the yeast should reactivate just...
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Bosnian ingr - peci prasak
I am trying to find out what this ingredient is. It is apparently a leavening agent used in Bosnian recipes. Can anyone tell me what it is?
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Pan dulce...can I use sourdough starter instead of packaged yeast?
Inasmuch as sourdough starter is an effective leavening agent, I suppose it could be used as an ingredient in pan dulce in place of packaged yeast. I just don’t know why you’d want to begin building a pan dulce...
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self rising flour [moved from L.A. board]
Self-rising flour is flour with a leavening agent mixed in (usually baking powder). The baking soda in the powder can age and become ineffective. To test if it’s still good put some into a bit of warm water, if it fizzes...
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low country baking
I too live at sea level and had never heard of having to adjust recipes for low altitude, so I googled and found that most recipes are devised for sea level. I agree with the other posters, it must have been your leavening agent...
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To Beat or Not to Beat?
are typically not light and full of air (as a french silk pie would be – sort of an airy mousse-like texture), and have other leavening agents to help them rise. So bottom line is when the recipe depends on eggs for...
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Self Rising Flour
premixed with chemical leavening agents. It was invented by Henry Jones.... Typical ratios are the following: ... Metric: * 100 g flour * 3 g baking powder * 1 g or less salt How does that compare with the baking powder
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help - why do my mini quiche always fall?
with the protein from the bit of flour used as the binder. There’s nothing wrong with the technique or the recipe, it’s just the way eggs work. You’d have to add another leavening agent plus protein (gluten) to...
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Question about egg quantity in a cake batter
; add color, texture, flavor and richness to the batter. They are very important in helping to bind all the other ingredients together. Beaten eggs are a leavening agent as they incorporate air into the batter, which will expand...
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I forgot the salt!
I don’t thin it would make a difference taste wise. If your leavening agent is pretty fre should be okay, doesn’t salt activate your leavening? it’s been a looonnng time since I took home ec.. :-)
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Indian: Uttapam question
have uses baking powder as the leavening agent with citric acid. Not great. But I’m mainly thinking of practicing the griddle pan technique right now. I think there may be a boxed uttapam mix as well, but I applaud your...
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Woodlands Artesia
"baratha? Giant fried poofy bread" Bhatura – dough fermented overnight with yogurt, and a slather of oil, in addition to other leavening agents, then deep fried to pouffiness (see link below). Woodlands possibly makes the...
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Dutch cocoa vs plain ol' hersheys?
The Dutching process involves treating the cocoa with alkali to decrease the cocoa’s acidity, smooth and mellow the flavors, and darken the color of the cocoa. The resulting increase in pH affects how leavening agents...
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