Sentences with phrase «as a leavening agent instead»

Irish soda bread is a quick bread made with baking soda as a leavening agent instead of yeast resulting in a dense savory bread with a texture that is a cross between a scone and a biscuit.

A typical Irish - American St. Patrick's Day dinner wouldn't be complete without a good soda bread, named so because of the use of baking soda (or sodium bicarbonate) as the leavening agent instead of yeast.