Soda bread Soda bread Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as "baking soda", or in Ireland, "bread soda") is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast. The ingredients of traditional soda bread are flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk. The buttermilk in the dough contains lactic acid, which reacts with the baking soda to form tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide. Other ingredients can be added such as butter, egg, raisins, or nuts. An advantage of quick breads is their ability to be prepared quickly
Tandoor bread infused smoky flavor, which makes it a special delicacy in Southern Asia. Production of tandoor bread is based on seven different phases: survey of current practice, design and installation of a tandoor, and development of standardized procedure for tandoori bread production, development of an evaluation scheme for tandoori breads, development of a reference set of grain and flour samples, investigation of the significance of parameters, and investigation of the relationship between wheat and flour parameters and tandoori bread quality. Aroma, smell, appearance, color, and size, and overall texture are the general characteristics that are optimized by producers of tandoor bread.