Old Times Baking And Sodium Acetate

[somuch4food]

For a while now, my favourite breakfast is buckwheat pancakes. It started out with a complicated vegan recipe that I have adapted to my new Peat inspired diet.

It was :
1 cup Buckwheat flour
1 cup Milk
1 tbsp Blackstrap molasses
1/8 cup Sugar
a pinch of cinnamon
a pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder

Since reading about sodium acetate (baking soda/vinegar mix), I have recalled that it was this that was used before the advent of baking powder.

This morning I tried to sub the baking powder for 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1 tbsp white vinegar. The texture was amazing and the pancakes were easier to digest.

Do you think that baking powder creates harmful byproducts during the chemical reaction?

 

[paymanz]

what im sure about is that baking powder contains phosphate and aluminum(at least some types of baking powder) which is not a good thing.

 

[jitsmonkey]

For a while now, my favourite breakfast is buckwheat pancakes. It started out with a complicated vegan recipe that I have adapted to my new Peat inspired diet.

It was :
1 cup Buckwheat flour
1 cup Milk
1 tbsp Blackstrap molasses
1/8 cup Sugar
a pinch of cinnamon
a pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder

Since reading about sodium acetate (baking soda/vinegar mix), I have recalled that it was this that was used before the advent of baking powder.

This morning I tried to sub the baking powder for 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1 tbsp white vinegar. The texture was amazing and the pancakes were easier to digest.

Do you think that baking powder creates harmful byproducts during the chemical reaction?

I don't know the answer to your question but I can testify that I cannot eat baking powder
as it creates digestive distress 100% of the time.
However I can take sodium acetate on an empty stomach no problem.
I've long wished for a replacement for baking powder and completely forgot this very salient point to sub Sod.Ac. . Thx!