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- noun informal
sodium bicarbonate
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Examples
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Btw can I steam it in cooker? soda bicarb is baking soda right? just want to verify. sharmi
Gujarati Series: Infused Khatta-Meetha Khaman Dhokla Cardamom 2007
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S’all OK, I’ve yanked her chip and I’ve got it soaking in bicarb and vinegar to get all that red oxide dust out.
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Two points to note – too much bicarb can give the chickpeas an unpleasant soapy quality, so always err on the side of caution.
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She soaks the dried chickpeas in cold water and a mixture of bicarb, flour and salt – the last, according to Harold McGee, speeds the eventual cooking time, but reduces the swelling of starch granules within the beans, giving a "mealy internal texture, rather than a smooth one", but the rationale behind the flour I'm unable to fathom.
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On reflection, Quokka, I think the bubbles in Coke are CO2 rather than bicarb.
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Ottolenghi uses 1½ tbsp bicarb per 500g dried chickpeas: 1 tbsp in the soaking water, and the rest in the pan.
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Although the recipes themselves are very different, this seems to give the most consistent texture: fluffy, yet somehow also comfortingly solid, it provides more support for the dried fruit than the bicarb.
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Cover with cold water and add the rest of the bicarb.
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Take 450g plain flour, plus extra for dusting; 1tsp bicarb ofsoda; 1 tsp cream of tartar; 2 tsp sea salt; 85g beef dripping or butter (or 6 tbsp olive oil); 225g Berkswell, roughly grated; 300ml sheep's milkyoghurt.
Food for Fort: Super-cheesy scones, cooker hoods and foul-tasting garlic 2010
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We reduced acid rain by restricting industry's sulfur emissions, not by all going out and sprinkling bicarb on sensitive forests and lakes.
On the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Let’s ... Go Shopping! 2010
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