Where to buy products for baking with

I've been trawling around town today trying to find the following products in supermarkets and in shops like Rossmann/DM.

Bicarbonate of soda- also called sodium bicarbonit. Leo tells me this is Waschsoda but I couldn't find it anywhere. Would pharmacies stock it? Is Waschsoda the right word in German?
Baking powder- I could only find Arm + Hammer in the international sections. Is there a cheaper alternative?
Citric Acid- I did find this in DM but in the cleaning section. Is this going to be safe for cooking and making things with?
Food colouring- nowhere in the backing section. Is this stocked in Germany

I'm not American so don't have access to the US bases round here and I'm trying not to use the overpriced British stores.

Any ideas>

I am sure there have been threads on this before...


Backpulver. Available in small packets in every supermarket


Squeeze a lemon.


So you could give us a clue in your profile

Bicarbonate of soda- Natron
Baking powder- Backpulver
Citric Acid- Zitronensäure
Food colouring- Lebensmittelfarbe

I think you can buy Natron in DM...?

That's marvellous- thanks for the replies.

Baking Soda / Baking Powder


from the TT Wiki:

British_and_American_Foods#Specific_Foodstuffs

Yup Renia, as sure as eggs are eggs, grass is green and the small porcelain lions on Bavarian gate posts are a blight to the eye.

Excuse me?

I always thought Backpulver and bicarbonate of soda were the same thing. I need some for my next attempts at making some decent fish and chips. Perhaps this is the key to me getting it right this time.

Ta very much.

Just added it to the shopping list of my friend coming over tomorrow. .

It was in answer to:


Just read the "Yup Renia" in my post and forget the weird similes that came after

That explains a lot- having to double up on Backpulver, that is. None of my cakes or breadings ever come out quite right. Man.

Whatever, I was just offering a possible solution.

Baking powder- I could only find Arm + Hammer in the international sections. Is there a cheaper alternative?

you found Arm +Hammer baking powder...please oh please tell me where!!! I can't find it anywhere around here. Of course the hubby and family have never heard of it. I keep explaining that it's useful for more than cooking. Like for the fridge when someone leaves nasty cheese in it for a while and its not found. Good for getting rid of nasty smells.

http://www.tevedelweiss.org/german-cooking...an-glossary.htm for A-Z German English Glossary - spices and seasonings.

I bagged 5 pounds of baking powder and baking soda and brought it with me...thinking back, I am lucky I wasn't arrested since they looked like two huge bags of coke

If you're not sure what you have...Baking soda is very white and baking powder is a bit yellowish looking...

If you want double acting baking powder, go to an organic store and look for baking powder with 'Weinstein' (that's cream of tartar). We get Lecker's brand. For baking SODA, look for Natron in any grocery store.

You can easiliy find Natron in DM!

I just can't resist asking, what are you baking???

Here
http://pinzer.dbfaktshop.de/

you find everything online!

I'm with LR - the OP needs to follow rules of full disclosure.

Someone already stated this above, but just to make it absolutely clear - Arm & Hammer is *NOT* baking powder. It's baking soda - completely different.

Arm & Hammer makes baking soda NOT baking powder!!! These are definitely not the same thing. Arm & Hammer Baking Soda is available in the American sections in many stores here (in Munich: Hertie, Karstadt, Kaufhof, HIT). And as someone else already posted, the price, whilst more expensive than the US is really not that bad...especially given all that it does! (I second its' use to get rid of nasty smells in the fridge!)

Edit: Ops. IPJ beat me to it!

Leo is wrong. If you type in baking soda, you get what you want. If you type in bicarbonate of soda, you get the wrong answer. That's a fairly large mistake to make. Baking soda is Natron, as stated by many others on this thread. Waschsoda is soda ash, or sodium carbonate. Not what you want to be using for your pancakes or muffins.

German backpulver does not work the same as baking powder from the US, for example. Flour here is different, too. If you're using an American recipe, you often have to add up to 1/4 cup more flour per cup to avoid flat as a pancake cookies and cakes that don't rise.

gopher, if you get german Backpulver with Weinstein, it will work in US recipes with no adjustment.

I always found that a good compromise to replace all-purpose flour was to do a 50/50 mix with 405 and 550.

Aelfwynn and Interplanetjanet: Thanks for your tips. I'll try it out next time. I admit I had never heard of Weinstein before.

So, is this Weinstein + Backpulver solution a suitable substitute for 'Self-Raising flour' as we know it in the UK? I'm just about to run out of my stash of SR Flour I brought over with me and I've promised a friend a lemon-drizzle cake...

i've purchased bicarbonate of soda at the Asian shop inside the Motorama arcade on Rosenheimerstrasse.

What is the equivalent of "all purpose baking flour" here? Just wondering if I will find all the ingredients to make American style chocolate chip cookies... I will also need brown sugar. Looks like from this thread that I will find baking soda, but that real vanilla extract might be tough?? MAN, I wish I had disregarded our movers and packed up some pantry items from back home.... argh.

Mlovett - I don't mean to be rude to you today (after saying that the Munich forum probably can't answer Hamburg-specific questions), but your questions have already been answered before. Please search for flour and brown sugar as they've already been answered. There is also a thread on natural vanilla extract. If you then can't find exactly what you need, then maybe start a thread in the Hamburg section.

There is an indian shop just in Munich, on adolf kopling strasse, called Kohinoor, it sells all sorts of stuff you cant get elsewhere, including delights like custard ( which i couldnt find anywhere )

Does anyone know the difference between the numbered series of flour? My chocolate chip cookies came out a bit wonky, which I blame on funny flour and not having known Backpulver was powder, not soda. They were devoured by my German class anyway though

TT threads on flour