Baking Powder
Baking powder is used while making or baking cake, muffins, cookies etc. it looks like white all purpose flour. It has a sour taste.
हिन्दी में पढिये - Baking Powder
Baking powder is made after mixing acidic medium (cream of tartar) and starch. Cooking baking powder consist of acidic medium (cream of tartar). It is used in recipes with don’t have savoring flavor. Starch is used in baking powder so that it can be stored as dry ingredient for long.
Baking powder used today has double action. First is when mixed with wet ingredients and second when it comes in contact with heat .i.e. when recipe is placed in oven. Bubbles get bigger and recipe becomes spongier. Due to double action, prepared recipe can be kept for 15 minutes prior to baking.
Recipe to be baked for long stretches of time require baking powder to be used as an ingredient because over exposure to heat baking soda stops working but baking powder keeps on working. This is why we use baking powder in while making cake, muffins and cookies etc.
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बेकिंग सोडा और बेकिंग पाउडर - Baking Soda and Baking Powder
