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    obscure(?) mexican spices - how to translate names?

    According to Diana Kennedy, in My Mexico (p. 257), Tequesquite is "a type of mineral salt that combines chloride and sodium bicarbonate. It forms in a thin, brittle gray crust over the land around the edges of the highland lakes...

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    Zucchini Questions

    for leaf damage from some home-brew recipes using sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). If you are growing a gray zucchini such as Greyzini, light gray mottling on the leaves is normal.

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    Where can I buy Baker's Ammonia?

    by Scandanavian bakers where most of us would use baking powder (I use Karlin’s Finest, a mix of cornstarch, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum sulfate, and calcium phosphate).

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    HELP!! I scorched my Le Creuset...

    You’re not really talking about a solution of baking soda and vinegar, right? You mean baking soda OR vinegar or baking soda either preceded or followed by vinegar. If you mix baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, a base) and...

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    Basic Chinese Noodle Dough Recipe for Knife Cut Noodles?

    . As for alkaline water (sodium carbonate) goes I know the Chinese name it is call “jian sui” or lye water. I don’t think it’s baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), it is used in jian zhong zi, wonton...

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    New Trader Joe's items

    , corn, millet, soybean, sunflower seeds, rice, flax, durum wheat, oats), wheat germ, modified corn starch, SALT, INVERT syrup, SODIUM BICARBONATE, ONION powder, malt flour, monocalcium phosphate, ENZYMEs. 30gram serving: 140...

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    why don't my beans ever get tender?

    I was just reading Herve This’s book, Molecular Gastronomy. He found that lentils (and I assume peas) won’t get soft if cooked in hard water. He added sodium bicarbonate to the water to negate the acid/hardness and...

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    Looking for chicken fat in the South Bay (honest!)

    usually start from scratch with matzoh meal, and the recipe on the box says to use seltzer. This time I bought the mix. The main difference is that the mix includes sodium bicarbonate. There are differences of opinion on this . ....

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    What is New York food?

    Club soda and seltzer are not the same. Club soda has a small amount of sodium bicarbonate added, along with some other stuff, which is why you sometimes see "sodium-free" on seltzer bottles.

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    viking range with griddle--how to clean it?

    - 1- Mix 1tsp baking soda (arm & hammer pure sodium bicarbonate) with 8oz lukewarm water. - 2 – Pour a dash on the blackest part of the griddle while still warm (but not hot enough to burn you) and rub with a paper towel - 3...

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    Why does my fish smell like ammonia?

    (we always used a sodium bicarbonate soak). The ammonia smell and taste is not noticeable in the smaller sharks (say, up to 3 feet) and I assume that the same holds true for the smaller skates. I don’t know which variety of...

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    Legal Seafoods Oyster Tasting

    towelette (would rather have oyster juice on my hands than ethyl alcohol, propylene glycol, USP, benzalkonium chloride, fragrance, polyoxethylene nonphenol, PEG 75, lanolin, and sodium bicarbonate.) That said, you really could eat...

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    New Englanders: Remember Peggy Lawton Choco Chip Cookies?

    (an emulsifier), and vanilla), pasturized whole eggs, walnuts (may contain other tree nuts), and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) For product or nutritional info write: Peggy Lawton Kitchens Inc, East Walpole MA 02032

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    Dissapointing Breakfast at the Mission

    A possible problem why your German Host Brother can’t recreate the American pancakes in Berlin is the difference between american and german backing powder. They contain different ratios of sodium bicarbonate (which...

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    Jones Soda Co. Carbonated Candy – $2.95 worth of stupid

    Please don’t tell me you dropped three bucks on a single tin of 'em. They definitely aren’t worth that much. The candies do the carbonation through a mix of citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. This does provide a nice...

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