Baking Help!! No Bicarb. of Soda

Emmenelle

Help please! I'm having a baking week and have just been to Tesco's but they had no bicarbonate of soda...at least none that me or Tesco blokey could find!

I've got 2 recipes for cookies that I was going to do this afternoon, but both require it. What would happen if I bake without it?? I've not been baking long enough to know and I really don't want to go back out - I've only got a small Co-op within walking distance and I don't see them having it, and I don't want to go out with the kids in the car just to get it!!

Will it matter hugely? I've been so organised this week - its always the little things isn't that just get in the way!

Thanks in advance

mudgekin

hi there,

I would be really surprised if the co-op didn't have it. Alternatively, hf you have a chemist close by they will also stock it. The pharmaceutical version is the same as the cooking version and it is possibly cheaper.

turfy6

When we first came here to live I could not find bicarb anywhere, they use Bread Soda here which I learned was the same thing. Now that Mr T is here bicarb has arrived, but I still use bread soda as it is so much cheaper.

Biggles

I looked for Bicarb of Soda or Baking Soda in my nearest branch of the Evil Empire (sorry - Tesco) a few months back and was told they no longer stocked either.

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nanokitten

they probably have baking powder even if no bicarb.
baking powder is a mixture of bicarb and tartarc acid (to acivate it) so will do the job just as well