thanks!!!
is there anywhere i can get baking soda in a large amount. like in the states you can get a box of arm and hammer?
pharmacy should do it. I bought a bag that i keep in the fridge
Sure, now you tell me.
i asked the landlord of my local pub to go to the cash & carry for me, he got me a kilo for CHF 10 and a beer..
Why don't you just ask your local bakery to sell you a kilo?
Check your local immigrant-run grocery store, they have all the imported goodness.
e.g. in Zurich, Barkat next to schmiede-wiedikon had a pleasant 100g box of baking soda for me
or... last resort... mail order ( from within Switzerland )
Both Jelmoli and Globus have bottles of baking powder. Portuguese shops also have it (it is called Royal and is sold in small red cans).
You can get a box of Arm and Hammer in most stores in Germany in their American section - do you shop regularly in Germany?
After coming from the US I love baking soda.
Here I where looking around, found finally a company in Basel that sells them not in homeopathic doses. 10tons minimum - lets start to share ????
It's in globus in the baking section in white tubs and is labelled as baking soda. They have a lot of things for baking that aren't easily found in coop or migros. Hope that helps!
I know this post is old, but after searching for baking soda, and pondering why Coop and Migros such tiny amounts (20lb bags in the states--along with the oversized bellies, yeah, yeah), this gave me a good laugh.
people here tend to use regular flour and baking powder as opposed to baking soda and self-raising flour.
I actually like to use for cleaning, with vinegar in lieu of chemical cleaners. But buying it at my local pharmacy was quite expensive. The prices from the websites mentioned here are much more reasonable!
Barkat also sells it in packets of 500g (labeled as sodium bicarbonate). At the one at Schmiede Wiedikon, it was on the other side of the wall from the bread.
For all you women who believe you need to drink plenty of bicarb, cranberry juice is a good alternative
Aligro has it in the baking section in large (1 kg?) containers. They also have baking power in little plastic containers instead of the little envelopes.
Baking powder and Baking Soda are not the same thing.
The first is is a mixture of an alkali and an acid such as Sodium Bicarbonate and Cream of Tartar (Weinstein) or Disodium pyrophosphate which will produce carbon dioxide once wet or heated. It also contains starch which makes measuring easier and helps to keep it dry.
The other one is just Sodium Bicarbonate (Natrium hydrogen carbonat).
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that they are the same. You can't buy baking powder in a container at Coop and Migros, so I was just mentioning it.
I was looking for that too and now I now where to get it ;D