Substitution for baking soda in pancakes

You need to use 2-3 times more baking powder than baking soda. Be aware that your flavors will be affected. Make sure it's double-acting baking powder and you must replace the acidic liquid in recipe with non-acidic liquid. You could also use some heartburn medicine that contained potassium bicarbonate :-)

Unfortunately there is no substitute. While it is possible to substitute for baking powder, the reverse just doesn't work the same. Tripling the quantity of baking powder to baking soda will give an equivalent reaction, but your pancakes will taste like metal.

You can use baking powder to leaven the batter but you can't replace baking soda with it 1 for 1.

Baking powder is soda with some acid to balance the ph. Pancake recipes that use only powder will not have extra acid, such as buttermilk, added to them.

I love buttermilk. If I were making the pancakes I would go buy soda rather than having an under-flavored breakfast. Baking soda keeps indefinitely and is useful for a lot of things. Buy enough that you never run out again.

When no baking powder is handy, you can make pancakes using yeast*.

It takes longer, having to let the yeast rise for 30 minutes and all, but I've done it, and the result is really really tasty pancakes!

*No endorsement of this recipe is implied, it's merely the first one I ran across.

Use 2 times the amount of baking powder and a higher temp. As for acid I'm not sure. I sub it in cake recipes (and never cared about the acid). In fact I use extra lemon juice for softness and it never interfered.

It is possible to make pancakes with non of both.

In Germany I have yet to meet someone who adds it. I guess the pancakes are thinner but they are tasty non the less.

Or you can carefully add whipped egg-white to the batter just before baking. That's how the very fluffy Kaiserschmarrn is made. The air contained in the stiff egg-white does more or less the same as the CO2 produced by Soda or baking powder.

For yet another option add some sparkling water to the batter.

Someone posted this on a different site. I am going to try it.

The only trouble I had was remembering the amounts. So, I wrote the following down and taped it to the inside of my baking cabinet.

to equal the leavening of:

• 1 teaspoon baking powder . . . use 1/4 teaspoon baking soda plus 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder . . . use 1/2 teaspoon baking soda plus 2 teaspoons vinegar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder. . . use 3/4 teaspoon baking soda plus 1 tablespoon vinegar

Yes, there is a substitution. It is a combination of cream of tartar and salt!