Baking powder

Baking powder is a leavener. Cooks use it for leavening.

Category: Breads & baking
Cooked most in: Asia, The Americas
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 5 in the catalogue

Photo: Rainer Z · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use baking powder

Typical ways to cook or use it

Leaven

If you don’t have baking powder

sodium bicarbonate · Works in a pinch, for baking
Combine it with a suitable kitchen acid.

Around the world

Where baking powder is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use baking powder. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia3
The Americas1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list baking powder among their ingredients.

Origins

1842 · United Kingdom
The first commercial baking powder was launched in England.
1898 · Germany
August Oetker began mass-producing phosphate-based baking powder.

On the table

Dishes made with baking powder

5 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Lapis talas Bogor
Indonesia
Lemon ricotta pancakes
United States
Leker Cake
Indonesia
Kue ape
Indonesia
Kitawa

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include baking powder.

Around the world

What baking powder is called

Names in 57 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
gasificante · Levadura quimica · Polvo para hornear · Polvo de hornear
French
levure chimique · Poudre à lever · Poudre à pâte · Agent de levuration
Italian
lievito chimico
Portuguese
levedura química · Fermento químico
German
Backpulver · Backin
Dutch
bakpoeder
Greek
Μπέικινγκ πάουντερ
Turkish
Kabartma tozu
Russian
Пекарский порошок · порошок для выпечки
Polish
proszek do pieczenia
Arabic
ذرور الخبز · كيكة تمر
Persian
پودر ورآور · پودر بیکینگ · پودر آشپزی · بیکینگ پودر

Show all 57 languages

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بيكنگ باودر
Afrikaans
Bakpoeier
Assamese
বেকিং পাউডাৰ
Asturian
Lleldu químico
Azerbaijani
Qabartma tozu
Basque
legami kimiko · Legamia-hauts · Legamia artifizial · Legamia kimiko
Brazilian Portuguese
Levedura química
Bulgarian
Бакпулвер
Cantonese
發粉
Catalan
rent químic · llevat químic
Chinese
复配膨松剂 · 泡打粉 · 发酵粉 · 发粉
Czech
kypřicí prášek · Prášek do pečiva · Kypřící prášek · Prdopeč
Danish
bagepulver
Esperanto
bakpulvoro
Estonian
küpsetuspulber
Filipino
Pulbos panghurno
Finnish
Leivinjauhe · leivinjauhe
Hebrew
אבקת אפייה · אבקת אפיה
Hungarian
sütőpor
Icelandic
Lyftiduft
Indonesian
bubuk pengembang
Irish
púdar bácála
Japanese
ベーキングパウダー · 脹粉 · ふくらし粉 · 膨らし粉
Javanese
bubuk panggang
Korean
베이킹파우더 · 베이킹 파우더
Latvian
Cepamais pulveris · Cepjamais pulveris · Cepampulveris
Lombard
Levad chimegh
Macedonian
прашок за печива · прашок за печиво
Malay
serbuk penaik
Min Nan Chinese
Phau-ta-hún
Minangkabau
Bubuak pangombang
Navajo
Biłʼeʼeliníʼ · Bił'e'eliní'
Norwegian Bokmål
bakepulver
Norwegian Nynorsk
Bakepulver
Romanian
Praf de copt
Serbian
Прашак за пециво
Slovak
Kypriaci prášok do pečiva · Prášok do pečiva · Kypriaci prášok
Slovenian
pecilni prašek
Swahili
Poda ya kuoka
Swedish
bakpulver
Tamil
சமையல் சோடா
Thai
ผงฟู · ผงฟูทำขนมปัง · Baking powder
Ukrainian
Пекарний порошок
Vietnamese
Bột nở
Welsh
powdwr codi
Yiddish
באק פולווער · בעיקינג פאודער

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q29476

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