How to repay soda vinegar

In many baking recipes, you can find the phrase: "Place the dough in the baking soda, quenched with vinegar". Soda is added to baked goods as a leavening agent. However, by itself, sufficient soda has little effect on the dough. And on the contrary may give it a grayish-yellow color and an unpleasant taste. The fact that the soda alone is not enough carbon dioxide to raise the dough. But repay soda vinegar, we will convert it into sodium carbonate, water and carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide and contributes to the loosening and lifting of the dough. And to properly extinguish soda with vinegar, just follow the simple tips.

How to repay soda vinegar
How to repay soda
Why quenching soda vinegar when added to the dough
What is soda

You will need

- teaspoon baking soda
- 4-6 drops of 9% vinegar

Instruction

Pour the desired amount of soda in a spoon. Usually the recipe is the exact proportion, from 0.5 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon.

Squeeze in a little spoon of 9% vinegar. One teaspoon is enough for 4-6 drops. It is not recommended to use undiluted vinegar.

The spoon will begin a rapid chemical reaction. The soda will begin to sizzle and foam. During quenching soda vinegar should not wait until the end of the reaction, quenched immediately stir in the baking soda into the batter. The reaction between baking soda and acid will continue after kneading.

Kneaded dough is immediately put into the preheated oven. Then, the finished pastries will get quite lush and beautiful.

Note

If you forget to repay soda and just pour it into the dough, add to the dough a spoon of citric acid or baking powder. If the recipe is sour cream or yogurt, to fear a sharp odor and unpleasant taste of the finished product is not worth it.

Useful advice

Soda can be extinguished with lemon juice, squeeze the lemon directly in a spoon with baking soda. Experienced cooks soda and extinguish in sour cream, and even yogurt, but only if these products are present in the dough recipe. Add in the sour cream the required amount of baking soda and wait a bit. Sometimes soda is extinguished and the boiling water.

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