Leavenings

To make a biscuit, you need three ingredients: flour, leavenings and fats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I also leave out leavenings and xanthan gun until baking as I find I like to customize that for most recipes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Bakers make a reasonable approximation of raised bread by supplementing rice flour with xanthan or guar gum or other long-chain carbohydrates, which help bind the dough together and retain the gas bubbles produced by yeasts or chemical leavenings. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Baking Soda The most common alkaline component of chemical leavenings is sodium bicarbonate or sodium acid carbonate, NaHCO3, usually called baking soda. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Nearly all chemical leavenings exploit a reaction between certain acidic and alkaline compounds that results in the production of carbon dioxide, the same gas produced by yeast. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Bakers use yeasts or chemical leavenings to fill their products with gas bubbles p. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Chemical leavenings can have adverse effects on both flavor and color. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Breads we have of several grains, roots, and kernels; yea and some of flesh and fish dried; with divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings: so that some do extremely move appetites; some do nourish so, as divers do live of them, without any other meat; who live very long. ❋ Unknown (1909)

(My recipe, which I linked to, can be made with either since many people outside the United States can't get natural cocoa powder so I used both leavenings.) ❋ David (2010)

"My mother has been known to sit up here at this bar and roll truffles with me," she says, leaning against a kitchen island holding flavorings, leavenings, bowls, measuring cups and large flour and sugar bins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is because these recipes are chemical balancing acts of exacting ratios of fat to sugar, to flour, to eggs, to leavenings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

2. Combine the flour, salt, and leavenings in a bowl. ❋ Mercedes (2008)

Hey are you [at work] today [Yeah but] I'm [leavening] at 12 ❋ Kim Vandercolk (2017)

im going to [sneak] into your [sisters] room, see if there are any panty leavens to [waft] ❋ David Scroggins (2008)

The uncooked [bread] got sick of walking around [the bakery] with all the other delicious, already-cooked [breads], so he decided to bake like a challah and leaven. ❋ Nicholas D (2004)

Girl 1 - that guy is [rude]. Girl 2 - [yep], he's a [Leaven]. ❋ Johnson Turbin (2022)