Baking Powder Reacts With Any Liquid Baking powder's acidic component, cream of tartar, is built in and reacts with the included alkaline baking soda when it comes in contact with any liquid.

Baking powder is a combination of a powdered alkali ... It’s the imbalance in the ratio of the alkali and acid components that can give a finished recipe a bitter chalky flavour.

To act as a leavening agent, it needs to be activated by an acid. Baking powder already contains the acidic component in the ...