While baking soda can be used interchangeably
with baking powder in recipes with only a flat cake as a result, washing soda (sodium carbonate) is chemically much different and should be used in washing, cleaning and household uses but not in food or baking.
«But if you were to try to substitute baking soda
for baking powder in a recipe where no acidic ingredient is present, there will be no release of gas and the dough won't rise.
Possibly
the baking powder in the recipe was supposed to be soda; if I was going to fix the recipe I would think about incorporating the unused egg whites.
There is
no baking powder in this recipe.
In buttermilk biscuits, for example, alkaline baking soda is there to neutralize the acidity in buttermilk, which lets
the baking powder in the recipe take care of the rise.
In the Joy of Cooking when they substitute buttermilk, they also change the amount of baking soda and
baking powder in the recipe to compensate.
Biggest difference appears to be the addition of
baking powder in your recipe.
There's
no baking powder in the recipe, it's based on an Italian recipe.
There's supposed to be
baking powder in this recipe?
My current knowledge (as I am not a chemist or a professional baker, obviously) has led me to choose baking soda instead of
baking powder in this recipe.
Hi... Does this great looking bread have any baking soda or
baking powder in the recipe?