WE all know how disastrous it can be if you get just one part of a recipe wrong – let alone an ingredient. And when a dish includes baking soda, baking powder or bicarbonate of soda, there’s bound to ...

As a food, sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, has many uses. It’s added to a variety of baked goods as a leavening agent, which gives them a fluffy texture. Soaking beans in baking soda can improve ...

Baking soda’s one of those kitchen essentials that oddly has a number of uses outside of just, you know, baking. While some are well known to the public (I’m sure you have an open container ...

You've likely heard that putting a box of baking soda in the refrigerator will neutralize any off-putting odors inside. Have you ever wondered, though, how a simple white powder can be so powerful?

First manufactured by McVitie’s in 1925, the biscuit is a chocolate-coated variety of the digestive, which was invented almost 100 years earlier. The name digestive comes from the belief that the ...

Farmers are being urged to look into sourcing alternatives to sodium bicarbonate, with shortages in supply pushing prices of the product up by £80/t to £300/t. Carbon dioxide is an essential component ...