baking powder

See also: baking-powder

English

Alternative forms

• baking-powder (dated)

Noun

baking powder (countable and uncountable, plural baking powders)

1. A dry leavening agent used in baking; a mixture of baking soda, an acid (often cream of tartar) and starch to keep it dry; when wetted, carbon dioxide is released.

Translations

dry leavening agent used in baking

• Armenian: փխրեցուցիչ (hy) (pʻxrecʻucʻičʻ), թխելու փոշի (tʻxelu pʻoši)
• Bulgarian: ба́кпулвер m (bákpulver)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泡打粉 (pou⁵ da² fan²), 發粉／发粉 (faat³ fan²)

  Mandarin: 發酵粉／发酵粉 (zh) (fājiàofěn), 焙粉 (zh) (bèifěn), 發粉／发粉 (zh) (fāfěn), 起子 (zh) (qǐzi)

• Czech: kypřící prášek m, prášek do pečiva m
• Danish: bagepulver n
• Dutch: bakpoeder (nl) n
• Esperanto: bakpulvoro
• Finnish: leivinjauhe (fi)
• French: levure chimique (fr) f
• Georgian: გამაფხვიერებელი (gamapxvierebeli)
• German: Backpulver (de) n
• Greek: μπέικιν πάουντερ n (béikin páounter)
• Hungarian: sütőpor (hu)
• Irish: púdar bácála m
• Italian: lievito chimico m
• Japanese: ベーキングパウダー (ja) (bēkingu paudā)
• Ladino: polvo levadura
• Maori: paura whakapiki
• Navajo: biłʼéʼélʼíní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakepulver (no) n

  Nynorsk: bakepulver n

• Plautdietsch: Bakpulwa n
• Polish: proszek do pieczenia (pl) m
• Portuguese: fermento químico m
• Romanian: praf de copt (ro) n
• Russian: пека́рный порошо́к m (pekárnyj porošók)
• Serbo-Croatian: prašak za pecivo m
• Spanish: polvo de hornear m, (Latin America) royal (es) m, (New Mexico) ^{(please verify)} bequenpaura m, róyal m (Latin America), polvo gasificante m, levadura química f
• Swedish: bakpulver (sv) n
• Taos: pòwdoʼóne
• Thai: ผงฟู (th) (pǒng-fuu)
• Turkish: kabartma tozu (tr)
• Ukrainian: пека́рський порошо́к m (pekársʹkyj porošók), розпу́шувач m (rozpúšuvač)

See also

• self-raising flour

Further reading

• baking powder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia