[Sca-cooks] snickerdoodles

[Devra at aol.com]

What about the acid?  With baking soda, you need an acid (likesour cream, or 
molasses, or vinegar) to get it to do its work properly.  Baking powder, on 
the other hand, does not.  So if you used soda instead of powder, and there 
wasn't any acid in the recipe, maybe they wouldn't rise.

Of course, if snickerdoodles automatically include molosses, then I'm wrong 
on this one....
       Devra