Baking Powder vs. Baking Soda

By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., about.com

Question: What Is the Difference Between Baking Soda & Baking Powder?

Answer: Both baking soda and baking powder are leavening agents, which means they are added to baked goods before cooking to produce carbon dioxide and cause them to 'rise'. Baking powder contains baking soda, but the two substances are used under different conditions.

Baking Soda
Baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate. When baking soda is combined with moisture and an acidic ingredient (e.g., yogurt, chocolate, buttermilk, honey), the resulting chemical reaction produces bubbles of carbon dioxide that expand under oven temperatures, causing baked goods to rise. The reaction begins immediately upon mixing the ingredients, so you need to bake recipes which call for baking soda immediately, or else they will fall flat!

Baking Powder
Baking powder contains sodium bicarbonate, but it includes the acidifying agent already (cream of tartar), and also a drying agent (usually starch). Baking powder is available as single-acting baking powder and as double-acting baking powder. Single-acting powders are activated by moisture, so you must bake recipes which include this product immediately after mixing. Double-acting powders react in two phases and can stand for a while before baking. With double-acting powder, some gas is released at room temperature when the powder is added to dough, but the majority of the gas is released after the temperature of the dough increases in the oven.

How Are Recipes Determined?
Some recipes call for baking soda, while others call for baking powder. Which ingredient is used depends on the other ingredients in the recipe. The ultimate goal is to produce a tasty product with a pleasing texture. Baking soda is basic and will yield a bitter taste unless countered by the acidity of another ingredient, such as buttermilk. You'll find baking soda in cookie recipes. Baking powder contains both an acid and a base and has an overall neutral effect in terms of taste. Recipes that call for baking powder often call for other neutral-tasting ingredients, such as milk. Baking powder is a common ingredient in cakes and biscuits.

Substituting in Recipes
You can substitute baking powder in place of baking soda (you'll need more baking powder and it may affect the taste), but you can't use baking soda when a recipe calls for baking powder. Baking soda by itself lacks the acidity to make a cake rise. However, you can make your own baking powder if you have baking soda and cream of tartar. Simply mix two parts cream of tartar with one part baking soda.

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Caranya mudah:
Susun sayur atau herbs potong di dalam gelas yang diisi sedikit air seperti menyusun rangkaian bunga.

Cups to Grams Conversion

U.S. cups/standard --to-- Grams/Milliliter

All Purpose Flour and Confectioners' Sugar
1/8 cup -- 15 grams
1/4 cup -- 30 grams
1/3 cup -- 40 grams
3/8 cup -- 45 grams
1/2 cup -- 60 grams
5/8 cup -- 70 grams
2/3 cup -- 75 grams
3/4 cup -- 85 grams
7/8 cup -- 100 grams
1 cup -- 110 grams


Butter or Margarine
1/8 cup -- 30 grams
1/4 cup -- 55 grams
1/3 cup -- 75 grams
3/8 cup -- 85 grams
1/2 cup -- 115 grams
5/8 cup -- 140 grams
2/3 cup -- 150 grams
3/4 cup -- 170 grams
7/8 cup -- 200 grams
1 cup -- 225 grams


For Liquid
1 tsp -- 5 ml spoon
1 tbsp -- 15 ml spoon
1/4 cup -- 60 ml
1/3 cup -- 75 ml
1/2 cup -- 100 ml plus 1-15 ml spoon
2/3 cup -- 150 ml
3/4 cup -- 175 ml

1 cup -- 200 ml and 2-15 ml spoons
1 1/4 cup -- 300 ml
1 1/3 cup -- 300 ml and 1-15 ml spoon
1 1/2 cup -- 350 ml
1 2/3 cup -- 375 ml and 1-15 ml spoon
1 3/4 cup -- 400 ml and 1-15 ml spoon

2 cups -- 475 ml
2 1/4 cups -- 500 ml and 2-15 ml spoons
2 1/3 cups -- 550 ml
2 1/2 cups -- 600 ml
2 2/3 cups -- 600 ml and 2-15 ml spoons
2 3/4 cups -- 650 ml

3 cups -- 700 ml and 1-15 ml spoon
3 1/4 cups -- 775 ml
3 1/3 cups -- 800 ml
3 1/2 cups -- 800 ml and 2-15 ml spoons
3 2/3 cups -- 850 ml and 1-15 ml spoons
3 3/4 cups -- 875 ml

4 cups -- 950 ml
4 1/4 cups -- 1000 ml

Macam-Macam Tepung

Tepung beras - Rice flour

Tepung gandum - Wheat flour

Tepung jagung - Corn flour/ corn meal

Tepung kanji - Starch (Tapioca starch, Corn starch, or Sago starch)

Tepung ketan - Sweet rice flour or Glutinous rice flour

Tepung maizena - Corn starch flour

Tepung sagu - Sago starch flour

Tepung singkong - Cassava (tapioca) starch flour

Tepung terigu - All purpose flour

Tepung terigu protein rendah - Low gluten flour (Cake flour or Pastry flour)

Tepung terigu protein tinggi - High gluten flour (Bread flour)

Useful website:
"Flour" from Wikipedia
Kitchen Dictionary: Flour

Note:
Potato flour cannot be used to substitute other type of flours because despite its name, potato flour is a type of starch.

Including in the starch family:
Corn starch, tapioca (cassava) starch flour, sago starch flour, potato flour

Oregano (Origanum vulgare)

JIKA Anda penggemar masakan Italia, pasti tahu bumbu yang satu ini. Oregano memiliki cita rasa pedas dan tajam, biasa digunakan untuk piza, saus spageti, dan saus lain pada masakan Italia. Sebenarnya tidak hanya Italia, tapi hampir setiap negara di kawasan Mediteranian menggunakan bumbu ini. Antara lain Spanyol, Prancis, dan Turki. Mesir dan Yunani pun banyak menggunakan oregano untuk bumbu sayuran, daging, ikan, bahkan anggur.

Oregano merupakan bumbu dari daun yang dikeringkan. Daun tersebut berasal dari tumbuhan Origanum yang tumbuh liar di daerah Mediteranian. Beberapa jenis tumbuhan Origanum diperkirakan berasal dari kawasan Mediteranian. Salah satu spesies utama ialah Origanum vulgare yang berasal dari Pan Eropa dan Turki. Origanum onites berasal dari Yunani dan Asia Kecil, sedangkan Origanum heracleoticum yang berkembang di Italia, Semenanjung Balkan, dan Asia Barat.

Iklim yang berbeda membuat karakter rasa dan aroma tiap spesies Origanum berbeda. Oregano yang berasal dari Turki memiliki aroma lebih tajam dan rasa lebih pahit daripada yang berasal dari Yunani dan daerah lain.

Sedangkan di Meksiko, oregano berasal dari spesies tumbuhan Lippia graveolens. Oregano Meksiko memiliki rasa dan aroma yang hampir sama dengan oregano lain, bahkan lebih tajam.

Kata oregano berasal dari bahasa Yunani origanon, diambil dari kata ganousthai yang berarti 'kebahagiaan' dan oros yang berarti 'gunung'. Nama itu digunakan karena oregano dianggap membawa kenikmatan untuk iklim Mediteranian. Dalam berbagai bahasa, oregano disebut juga origani, oregani, oregao, ourega, oregan, oragan, orenga, rigon, rigoni, rigan, rigani, dan riegnu.

Dalam masakan, oregano digunakan pada aneka saus yang berbahan dasar tomat. Misalnya saus spageti dan saus barbeque, serta masakan seafood dan daging panggang. Selain itu, sering ditambahkan dengan minyak zaitun dan cincangan daun basil, daun mint, atau peterseli. (CR-57/M-2)

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Herbs Translation Indonesian - English

Indonesian - English

A
Adas - Fennel
Andaliman/ Intir-intir - Szetchwan pepper/ Indonesian lemon pepper
Asam jawa - Tamarind

B
Bawang bombay - Onion
Bawang merah - Shallots
Bawang putih - Garlic
Biji adas - Fennel seed
Bunga lawang/ Pekak - Anise star/ Indian anise

C
Cencil/ Selada air - Watercress
Cengkeh - Clove

D
Daun bawang - Scallion
Daun jeruk purut - Kaffir lime leaf
Daun ketumbar - Cilantro
Daun melinjo - So leaves
Daun salam - Bay leaves

J
Jahe - Ginger
Jemuju - Caraway
Jinten - Cumin/ White cumin/ Green cumin
Jinten manis - Aniseed/ Sweet cumin

K
Kamukus/ Cabe jawa - Javanese peppercorn/ Cubeb peppercorn
Kapulaga - Cardamom/ Green cardamom
Kapur sirih - Slaked lime / Lime stone paste
Kayu manis - Cinnamon
Kelabat - Fenugreek
Kemangi - Basil
Kemiri - Candle nut
Kencur/ Kunyit putih - Zedoary/ Resurrection Lilly/ Sand ginger/ Lesser Galangal
Ketumbar - Coriander
Kunyit - Turmeric
Kunyit bunga kering - Saffron

L
Lengkuas/ Laos - Galangal

P
Pala - Nutmeg
Pandan - Screwpine/ Pandanus
Pekak/ Bunga lawang - Anise Star/ Indian anise

S
Selasih - Basil
Seledri/ Paterseli - Parsley
Sereh - Lemongrass

T
Temu kunci - Fingerroot / Moulu

Tips Memasak Dengan Bumbu Berbentuk Bubuk

oleh Viki.

Bumbu-bumbu seperti jahe, kunyit, jintan, dll, sering dijumpai di jual dalam bentuk bubuk.
Masakan Indonesia seringkali mengharuskan agar bumbu ditumis sampai harum agar rasa gurihnya keluar. Apabila memakai bumbu berbentuk bubuk, agar tidak cepat gosong dan gampang menumis, aduk2 bumbu2 dengan sedikit minyak sayur sehingga membentuk pasta.
Pasta bumbu2 ini lebih mudah untuk ditumis dan dan harum dan gurihnya tidak kalah dengan bumbu segar yang diulek.

A Glossary of Baking Terminology

Nuggets Every Connoisseur Should Know


Angel Food Cake
Unique because of its light texture, angel food cake is a supreme example of the tremendous leavening power of egg whites. The batter is made with just egg whites, sugar and flour and is baked in a tube pan.

Baba
Babas are small cakes made from a yeast dough containing raisins or currants. They are baked in cylindrical molds and then soaked with a sugar syrup usually flavored with rum.

Baking Blind
This term refers to baking an unfilled tart shell to produce a partially or fully baked crust. It is done by lining the dough with parchment paper or foil and filling it with pie weights or dried beans to hold the shape during baking.

Bavarian Cream
This molded cream is made from custard sauce or sweetened fruit puree that is
bound with gelatin and lightened with whipped cream. Bavarian cream can be served on its own or used as a filling for cold charlottes or molded cakes.

Boiled Icing
This icing, which is similar to Italian meringue, is used as a filling and rosting for a number of old-fashioned American layer cakes such as devil's food cake.

Butter Cakes
These cakes are made by first creaming butter with sugar to incorporate air. Whole eggs or egg yolks are added and flour is stirred in alternately with the liquid (often milk) at the end. When made with whole eggs, baking powder is often used as the leavener. When only the yolks are added at first, the beaten whites are folded in at the end. Most American layer cakes are butter cake-based.

Buttercream
Buttercream is basically a flavored mixture of butter, sugar and eggs that is used to fill and frost cakes. Whole eggs, yolks or whites may be heated with sugar over simmering water and whipped cold before adding the butter and flavoring, or a sugar syrup cooked to the firm-ball stage can be poured over the eggs, then whipped until cold before the butter and flavoring are added. Buttercream can also be made by combining butter with pastry cream in a 1-to-2 ration or with custard sauce, 1-to-1.

Caramel
See Sugar Cooking.

Charlotte
This molded dessert is composed of a filling surrounded by ladyfingers or bread. Apple charlotte is a golden crusted dessert made by baking a thick apple compote in a mold lined with buttered bread. Cold charlottes are made in a ladyfinger-lined mold and filled with a Bavarian cream; for frozen charlottes, a frozen soufflé or mousse replaces the Bavarian cream.

Cookies
Cookies can be prepared in myriad shapes and textures and are usually categorized by the way they are formed. Drop cookies are dropped from a spoon. Rolled cookies are made from a chilled dough that is rolled out and cut into shapes. Bar cookies are baked in sheets and then cut into squares or bars. Molded cookies can either be shaped by hand, stamped with a pattern before baking or baked directly in a mold. Bagged or piped cookies are shaped with a pastry bag or a cookie gun.

Cream Puff Paste (Pâte à Choux)
Somewhere between a batter and a dough, cream puff paste is made by beating flour and then eggs into boiling water and butter. Once shaped and baked, it is crisp on the outside, almost hollow inside and forms a convenient container for whipped cream, pastry cream or ice cream (cream puffs, éclairs and profiteroles, e.g.). The dough can also be deep-fried and rolled in sugar to make sweet fritters (beignets).

Custard Sauce (Crème Anglaise)
Often served as an accompaniment to sweet soufflés, fruit desserts and cakes,
custard sauce is also the foundation for Bavarian cream and for frozen desserts such as rich ice cream. Sometimes called stirred or pouring custard, it is a mixture of egg yolks, sugar and milk and/or cream that is cooked only until the yolks coagulate to thicken the custard. The mixture must not boil or else the yolks will scramble; if this does happen, whir the custard in a blender to emulsify it.

Dacquoise
This classic French cake is composed of baked nut meringues layered with
buttercream. There are many names for nut meringues and meringue-based desserts -- succès, progrès, japonais among them -- and the proportions, size and type of nut(s) used varies from one to another. Back to Meringue (if you linked here from there).

Dock
This term refers to piercing pastry doughs before baking. The holes allow the steam to escape, preventing the dough from bubbling and becoming distorted.

Foam Cakes
In these cakes, air is beaten into whole eggs and sugar before the other ingredients (starches) are gently folded in. Genoise is an example of a foam cake, and some other sponge cakes fall in this category as well.

Ganache
Ganache is a rich chocolate mixture made by combining chopped semisweet chocolate and boiling cream and stirring until smooth. The proportions of chocolate to cream can vary, and the resulting ganache an be used as a cake glaze or beaten until fluffy and used as a filling or as the base for truffles and other chocolate confections.

Gateau
The French word for cake (pl. gâteaux).

Genoise
Genoise is the classic, fine-crumbed French sponge cake made by beating warm whole eggs with sugar until the mixture more than triples in volume, then folding in the flour and sometimes melted butter too.

Glazes
Glazes are used to give desserts a smooth and/or shiny finish. Cake glazes can be water icing (confectioners' sugar mixed with liquid), melted chocolate in combination with cream, butter and/or sugar syrup, or fondant (a thick shiny opaque icing). Caramel is used to glaze some cakes and small pastries; and sugar cooked to the hard-crack stage can be used to give pastries sheen but no color. Tart glazes are made from sieved jam, preserves or jelly, or a combination of the above. Pastry glazes (brushed on dough before baking) can be an egg glaze made with whole eggs or yolks; milk, cream and/or butter glaze (these produce a duller finish); sugar glaze (sugar sprinkled over milk or cream glaze), or any combinations of the above.

High-Altitude Baking
Altitude does not begin to affect baking until above 2,500 feet. Higher than that, the altitude will dry out ingredients, make doughs and batters rise faster, and make liquids boil faster. Generally speaking, pans should be greased more heavily, oven temperatures increased slightly, leaveners and sugar reduced and liquid increased. The actual adjustments needed will depend on the altitude.

Ladyfingers
Ladyfingers are small sponge cakes, about 3 1/2 inches long, used primarily in making charlottes and tiramisu. They can be formed with a pastry bag with a plain tip, in a ladyfinger pan or with two spoons.

Lemon Curd
This cooked mixture of lemon juice (and sometimes grated zest), sugar, butter and egg yolks makes a rich, tart spreading cream that can be used as a filling. Many variations exist using other citrus fruits.

Meringue
Meringue, a beaten foam of egg whites and sugar, can be used as a pie topping, to lighten other mixtures and, after being baked to a crisp layer or shell, as the foundation of various cakes and desserts (see dacquoise). Simple, uncooked meringue is made by beating egg whites, then beating in the sugar until very stiff, shiny peaks form. Cooked meringue is more stable. Two forms are: Swiss meringue-- egg whites and sugar heated over simmering water, then beaten until long, tall peaks form and the meringue is cold; Italian meringue -- sugar syrup cooked to the firm-ball stage, beaten into whipped egg whites, then whipped until cold.

Pastry Cream (Crème Patissière)
Pastry cream is a cooked mixture made with egg yolks, sugar and milk thickened with flour and/or cornstarch and finished with a little vanilla. Butter is often beaten in at the end to give it a silkier consistency. It is used as a filling or as the creamy layer in a fruit tart. It can be flavored with liqueurs, chocolate or coffee; when flavored with almonds or macaroons, it becomes a frangipane; with the addition of gelatin and Italian meringue, it becomes crème chiboust. Lighten pastry cream by folding in 1 part whipped cream to 2 parts pastry cream.

Pastry Dough
Pie dough or flaky pastry is the standard American dough for pies. It can be made with butter, vegetable shortening or lard, but most often a combination of butter and shortening is used. Whatever fat is used, it is rubbed or cut into the flour and then moistened with water to form the dough. Salt is either dissolved in the water or added to the flour at the start. The more finely the fat is rubbed in, the less flaky and more mealy the baked dough will be. Pâte brisée, the French equivalent of our pie dough or flaky pastry, uses the same proportions of ingredients, but the fat is always unsalted butter and the liquid may be water, water and egg or all egg. When well made, the pastry is flaky. Sweet dough, or pâte sucrée, is made in a similar way with the addition of sugar and sometimes baking powder. It is often used for small tarts where the filling is baked directly in the raw dough. Cookie dough, or pâte sablé, is a delicate dough that is usually made by beating the fat with sugar, then mixing in eggs, with the flour (often cake flour) added at the end. This dough is usually baked blind and then filled after it has cooled.

Petits Fours
Petits Fours Secs ("dry" petits fours) are usually thin, delicate cookies often sandwiched with preserves, ganache or praline paste, although plain butter cookies could also fall under this heading.
Petits fours glacés are tiny iced cakes sandwiched with preserves, ganache or buttercream and delicately decorated.
Petits fours frais are miniature pastries like fruit tarts or eclairs that are filled either with pastry cream or with buttercream.

Phyllo Dough
Phyllo is a tissue-thin pastry dough cut into sheets that is used in Middle Eastern desserts, such as baklava, and is similar to strudel dough. Sheets of phyllo are brushed with melted butter and layered before baking. Phyllo is increasingly available in the freezer section of supermarkets.

Pound Cake
This is the ultimate butter cake. It gets its name (and texture) from the traditional proportions of its ingredients -- one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour -- although over the years cooks have tinkered with the original formula and baking powder is sometimes added to the batter.

Praline Paste (Praliné)
This smooth paste is made by adding equal proportions of skinned hazelnuts (or hazelnuts and almonds) to hot caramel, letting it harden and then pulverizing until creamy. A perfectly smooth praline paste is difficult to make at home, but is available in specialty food shops.

Puff Pastry
This is the multilayered buttery pastry in napoleons and palmiers. The thin, crisp, flaky layers are formed when the dough and butter are rolled together, then folded in thirds like a letter and rolled again in a process called a turn; classic puff pastry is "turned" six times, which creates over 1,000 layers of dough (thus the French term mille-feuille, which means 1,000 leaves). Well-made puff pastry rises to 5 times its original volume during baking. As it bakes, the water in the dough converts to steam, filling the places previously occupied by the butter, which has already melted and been absorbed by the dough. Preparing the dough from scratch is an exacting process and many people prefer to buy the dough ready made. Quick puff pastry is made by tossing large cubes of butter with flour before the water is added to form the dough; the dough is then rolled and folded like puff pastry. Although it does not rise so high as classic puff dough, the quick pastry has the same delicate, flaky texture and can be used for any desserts where the pastry doesn't have to rise as tall.

Royal Icing
This icing is a mixture of confectioners' sugar and egg whites, and it dries hard. It is the traditional icing for English Wedding Cake and is often used to make filigree designs.

Savarin
Made from a yeast dough, like babas, but without the currants, savarins are baked in large or small ring molds, soaked with a syrup usually flavored with rum or kirsch and then painted with a fruit glaze. The center of the ring is filled with whipped cream or pastry cream, and sometimes fresh or poached fruit is added.

Sponge Cake
Sponge cakes are leavened by beating air into whole eggs and sugar or by beating the sugar with the yolks and whites separately. The cakes tend to be fairly lean, even when they contain butter, and are often split into layers, moistened with a flavored sugar syrup and filled.

Strudel Dough
A traditional Viennese strudel dough contains more fat (oil) than phyllo dough and is stretched to a large tissue-thin sheet before being rolled around a filling to make one strudel. Although prepared strudel dough is sometimes hard to find, phyllo can be used in its place to make small strudels (both can be mail-ordered).


Sugar Cooking
When sugar is dissolved in water and brought to a boil, it forms a solution called a syrup. Simple syrup is made with equal quantities of sugar and water. As the syrup boils, the sugar becomes more concentrated and the syrup more dense. The various stages of the cooked sugar solution can be measured with a candy thermometer. Simple syrup is used to moisten cakes, and sugar cooked to various stages is used in the making of fondant, buttercream, boiled icing, and Italian meringue. Sugarcooked to between 320 and 350 degrees becomes caramel, which is used for glazing and making spun sugar,caramel cages and praline paste. Back to Caramel.


Tart
Tarts are shallow and straight sided (as opposed to sloped-sided American pies) and usually have only a bottom crust, but this is by no means the rule. They are baked in pans with removable bottoms or in flan forms (frames that support the sides of the tart as it bakes on a baking sheet) and are usually served unmolded. Tarts can also be baked free-form on a sheet.

Torte
Torte is the Eastern European name for a cake (pl. torten).