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baking powder [1 record]

Record 1 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Additives
  • Breadmaking
DEF

A [chemical] leavening agent that raises dough by the gas (carbon dioxide) produced when baking soda and acid react in the presence of water: it usually contains baking soda mixed with either starch or flour and cream of tartar or other acid-forming substance, as anhydrous sodium aluminum sulfate.

Key term(s)
  • baking-powder

French

Domaine(s)
  • Additifs alimentaires
  • Boulangerie
DEF

[...] mélange de substances chimiques (bicarbonate de soude ou carbonate d'ammoniaque associé avec de la crème de tartre, de l'acide tartrique ou du phosphate d'aluminium sodique, et avec un excipient : farine, amidon ou carbonate de chaux alimentaire).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aditivos alimentarios
  • Panificación
DEF

Producto químico que permite dar esponjosidad a una masa debido a la capacidad de liberar dióxido de carbono [...], es una mezcla de un ácido no tóxico (como el cítrico o el tartárico) y una sal de un ácido o base débil, generalmente carbonato o bicarbonato [...]

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