Baking powder at home for dough and how to cook baking powder at home?

How to make a baking powder at home?

How to replace and how to cook? At its core, baking powder consists of wheat flour, lemon acid and baking soda. Ingredients are found in the reserves of any hostess, so that the independent preparation of baking powder is not a difficult task at all. In addition, the powder is not sold in all stores, and sometimes just flies out of his head to buy it home.

Baking powder in a ratio of approximately 20 g. suitable for 500 gr. flour. Sometimes as a powder, leaven works. In this case, other compounds for the test will no longer be required. However, for baking cookies, muffins, cakes and other cotton products, it is better to make the baking powder by yourself.

Attention! Baking powder is prepared exclusively in dry form. Addition of water or milk will dilute the solution, and he will lose all his properties.

What is the baking powder for the dough made of?

Before we give a recipe for the powder, let's look at what this notorious bakery consists of?

Ingredients:

1. 
   

   
   Flour.
   
   With flour, proportionalsizes of disintegrant. Sometimes starch acts as an analogue of flour. But cooks are advised to use the wholemeal flour (for example, wheat or rye) - this allows to increase the splendor of the dough.

   
   


2. 
   

   
   Soda.
   
   Despite strong taste characteristics, soda is leveled due to lemon or vinegar, so that the bakery product does not contain the taste of soda.

   
   


3. 
   

   
   The acid of the lemon.
   
   Citric acid is excellentneutralizer. If you want to make an exclusive pie or roll, you can add currant or cranberries. Dry mixes of berries are not inferior to lemons, though for this purpose it will take a double portion of the ingredient.

   
   

On a note! Mix soda and vinegar at the stage of heating the product in the oven. The fact is that high temperature accelerates the process of gas formation, which leads to an abundance of bubbles and a rise in the test.

Disintegrating agents and their types:

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  Independently loosened - when the reaction occurs in the cavity, voids are formed, due to which the product receives fluffiness and volume;


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  Loosening - require the participation of auxiliary devices (for example, a mixer). Mechanical action gives substances the necessary properties. They are usually added to the final product.


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  Disintegrating gases - heat treatment leads to gas formation and the appearance of voids visually increasing the workpiece.

How to prepare baking powder at home?

We turn to the most important issue of our topic - how to make baking powder by yourself. Below is the instruction and the list of necessary ingredients.

Prepare the following kitchen appliances:

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  bowl;


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  electronic balance;


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  1 teaspoon.

Ingredients for baking powder:

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  wheat or rye flour (12 parts);


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  lemon acid (3 parts);


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  baking soda (5 parts).

At the first stage, you need to measure the exact amount of products and prepare them for mixing in a general consistency.

Advice! Use not ordinary, but electronic kitchen scales. The device measures the weight of the ingredients to the nearest milligram, so this is the most accurate metric device.

Take baking soda and measure 5 gr. composition. Then you need to weigh and pick up 3 gr. citric acid. Finally, the final weighing will be wheat or rye flour in the proportion of 12 grams.

Attention! Use the exact proportions of soda in grams, otherwise its taste will be felt on the baking.

Cooking method:

Add the ingredients to a common bowl and mix them several times. As a result of simple mixing we should get exactly 20 gr. baking powder!

Cooking baking powder can be with starch, soda,citric acid and not with vinegar or iodine. Similar recipes, described above, are offered by the site Povarenok, as well as the cookbook by Lisa Glinskaya. The self-made composition is no different from the purchased one, so it can be used when baking bread at home. Bon Appetit!