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    Magnolia Bakery cupcakes...they ARE good!

    flour and just add some leavening agents instead?

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    Fruit dumplings: your Mitteleuropean delight

    Matzos are just flour and water—no salt or (obviously) any leavening agent.

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    Malabar Paratha at Udupi Palace, Berkeley; lime sodas

    , the unniappam will just not come out as tender, but rubbery. The right equipment makes a lot of difference. And if you want it even softer, keep the batter aside for 3 to 4 hours and use. You dont need any leavening agents....

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    sought: cornbread help

    of sugar helps to offset the bitterness of the leavening agents. You could probably leave it out, though.

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    Biscuit and shortcake confusion!

    Traditional Southern biscuits are often small, flaky, and relatively flat. Like pie pastry, they’re mostly flour cut with fat to create layers of flakiness, along with a little bit of liquid and sometimes leavening agent....

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    Biscuits - making ahead

    creates steam – which is supposedly a factor in the wet-dough recipes (where the biscuits are formed with floured hands, not cut). It would interesting to look at the leavening agents in refrigerated ‘whack and...

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    Fox's U-Bet Reminder

    of things that include leavening agents like wheat, rye, barley, oats, and spelt, and includes other grains like rice and corn, along with all legumes such as peas, mustard seed and all members of the bean family. Any food...

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    Low carb baking - banana bread, clafoutis, etc

    Yeah, it was my first attempt. They were still edible, though. I used Pamela’s baking mix (which contains xanthan gum) and tried to modify The Cake Bible’s yellow cake recipe. As Pamela’s contains leavening...

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    Mexican Lasagna!??!

    masa harina? what’s going to hold it together, just water? i’ve never seen a corn noodle come to think of it. tortillas have a leavening agent and, typically, fat. also salt. lasagna noodles are flour based. italians...

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    Cake Always Falls

    by about 20 – 25 degrees. I’d start with 20 and work up or down from there, depending on results. Your falling cake is, I suspect, a failure of the leavening agent. If you’re relying on egg whites to leaven your...

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    Tamales: How to make the best masa dough?

    in tamale masa dough, like baking powder. Then there’s the magical “cold water test”: after combining the fat or oil (in whatever form), and leavening agent to the masa, drop a small ball of dough in a glass of...

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    Do you weigh or measure flour for dough?

    from the get go. Your leavening agents expand more (so I suspect you reduce those to some extent) and if you’re baking bread your rise time will be reduced. My only suggestion is for you to keep a note book at hand in the...

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    Oakland Chinatown Takeout Dim Sum Roundup 2009

    understand it? The chinese use other combinations of leavenings not in euro recipes, so it wouldn’t have to be yeast. There’s a very simple rice pastry that has bubbles in it not from leavening but from fermentation...

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    Dumplings

    I am looking for a more dense texture. I will try to leave out the leavening agent and see what happens. (as soon as the weather gets cooler again).

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    Passover Shopping - Most Interesting Options

    suspected, and as Pizza Lover has confirmed, these “kosher” for Passover bagels contain yeast, the ultimate leavening agent!

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