Oops

[rootofnewt]

I screwed up. My carrot cake recipe calls for 1tsp of baking soda. I used baking powder (featherweight). Ah well. One of the primary ingredients in my baking powder is bicarbonate of phosphate or whatever that is which makes a good substitute for baking soda. These layers might be a little airy. It's aluminum-free baking powder, so it shouldn't affect flavor too much. Nothing a little cream cheese frosting can't handle.

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In other news, there's a leak somewhere along my windshield washer fluid line... or the motor itself is upset. I filled the damn thing full at WalMart, tried to use it coming home--nothing. I figured the line might be frozen with a bit of summertime fluid (though there shouldn't be any of that in there). I checked on it when I came home--nearly empty again. Ugh.

I wish the parts for these things were easy to get to so I could fix it myself, but it's a pain in the arse. Damn Buick.

Comments

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

If it's the hose it's pretty generic. Often the pump can be replaced with a generic one as well.

[deborahs-corner.livejournal.com]

Bet the carrot cake came out ok...smile.
When in an emergency in winter...if no windshield washer fluid..I put in some alcohol...does wonders cause it won't freeze. Hope you get it fixed soon.
huggers

[krues8dr.livejournal.com]

Also check the fluid reservoir for cracks. My radiator fluid reservoir had a small crack in it that leaked a lot. They wanted to charge me like $100 bucks to replace it, and I did it myself with some duck tape for a few cents. ;)

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

baking soda is the bicarbonate you mentioned. Baking powder is the same stuff with an anhydrous citric acid or something in it, so that it supplies it's own acid to react with the baking soda in it when it gets wet. Carrot cake will be a little different, possibly slightly denser since the leavening cycle will be off, but certainly edible.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Baking powder is usually bicarbonate of soda and tartaric acid (cream of tartar). I love this:

Tartaric acid is a brownish-red acid powder (potassium bitartrate) that is precipitated onto the walls of casks used to age wine. When refined into a white acid powder, ‘cream of tartar’, it is used in baking.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Can I claim half-credit, ma'am?

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

But of course! :)

[ismene.livejournal.com]

Citric acid, the stuff of wonders: it goes in food, it makes bath bombs fizzy, it's used in printmaking, it hurts like hell if you breathe in a huge cloud of it.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. i was substituting an aluminum-free, sodium-free baking powder which contained bicarbonate phosphate, cream of tartar, and something else.

it all turned out perfect.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

Guess what?

[bbick.livejournal.com]

I've been having the same damn problem myself. It's sporadic, actually. Usually, it's when it's really, really cold that it doesn't work, though, so I was figuring it was just a temperature issue.

Re: Guess what?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Well, at first, I thought it was the cold. Living south of the Mason-Dixon, I have on occasion bought windshield wiper fluid without bothering to note the temperature. It's not all cold-weather stuff down here. o_O.... I've had it freeze in the lines and ON MY WINDSHIELD before. That was a fun experience (different car, MD/WV mountains, snowstorm). I have a definite leak somewhere along the line, though. And this isn't an easy part to get to. *sigh* If it were easy, I'd have fixed it already.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Finding the parts isn't difficult. Getting to the parts in my car is difficult. The 95 Buick Regal is one of the most bass-ackwards models when it comes to accessing crucial things (like the battery).