jpinmaryland
Sous Chef
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- Sep 16, 2004
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I am going through a period of making breads: zuccinni bread; carrot cake and banana bread. they all use basically the same recipe including using 2 tps baking powder and 1 tsp of baking soda.
the other day i was wondering what would happen if I left out the baking soda as I have seen other recipes that dont use powder and soda together (e.g. goodweed's pancake recipe). Anyhow I did that and my zuccinni bread came out very flat and chewy and very little rise.
So is baking soda a necessary ingredient when using baking powder? Does it just add some bubbles? What does it do?
Thanks.
the other day i was wondering what would happen if I left out the baking soda as I have seen other recipes that dont use powder and soda together (e.g. goodweed's pancake recipe). Anyhow I did that and my zuccinni bread came out very flat and chewy and very little rise.
So is baking soda a necessary ingredient when using baking powder? Does it just add some bubbles? What does it do?
Thanks.