A CLOSER LOOK
How to recognize it
Culinary sodium bicarbonate, also called bicarbonate of soda.
In the kitchen
Helps leaven baking mixtures; some egg-cake batters add it after fermentation.
Sodium carbonate is a different culinary alkali. Baking powder is a mixture containing bicarbonate and acid ingredients.
Ask about this ingredient
这道菜里有小苏打吗？
Does this dish contain Baking soda?
A few dishes to explore
These examples use this ingredient in typical or optional preparations. Open the dish to see the distinction; a restaurant’s recipe can differ.
