Baking powder is required for baking a variety of confectionery and flour products. It will make the dough fluffy, airy and tender. Today, you can find special mixtures for dough in stores, but an experienced hostess can always make a baking powder on her own.
It is necessary
- - 4.8 g of baking soda;
- - 3 g of citric acid;
- - 12 g flour.
Instructions
Step 1
There are various leavening agents for the dough. They are needed to rise the dough, increase it in volume, give it a soft and porous consistency, plasticity.
Step 2
The main baking powder in different types of dough is soda. By adding it, you need to properly comply with the norms provided for by the recipe. With an excess of soda, the product turns out to be yellow-green in color, an unpleasant taste and smell appears. Therefore, it is better to put it less than necessary.
Step 3
Prepare a dry mixture of baking soda and citric acid. When preparing the mass, be sure to mix such a baking powder with flour prepared for it. Then knead the dough. Powder diluted in milk or water loses its quality.
Step 4
For baking, it is best to use vinegar slaked baking soda. After adding it, knead the dough very quickly.
When quenched, carbon dioxide is released, so the products are airy and porous.
Step 5
If the dough contains fermented milk products or sour cream, then mix soda or prepared baking powder with them first. The mass is crumbly.
Step 6
The airiness of fresh baked goods is given by the use of several baking powder at the same time - soda and vodka. Mix soda quenched with vinegar with fermented milk products, and stir one teaspoon of vodka with an egg, salt and sugar.
Step 7
You can also use ammonium carbonate to loosen the dough. To do this, dissolve it in a little warm water (1 part ammonium to 4 parts water) or milk. Dry ammonium must be thoroughly ground into powder and sieved. Large parts of ammonium form large pores in the dough.
Step 8
As a leavening agent, you can take alcoholic beverages - this is liqueur, cognac and rum. Add them to the dough strictly according to the recipe.
