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The Citrus Juice You Should Be Incorporating Into Your Pancake Batter By Paige Hughes Nov. 16, 2025 5:00 pm EST

When I cook, my absolute favorite ingredient to incorporate into my dishes is lemon. I try to add it into almost anything I make, from sprinkling this fruit over bacon to brightening up chicken noodle soup . Lemon juice happens to be the perfect accompaniment to pancakes as well!

In store-bought or homemade pancake batter, there's a leavening agent in the mix, like baking powder, baking soda, or both. When lemon juice is added to the batter, the citric acid chemically reacts with the baking soda — giving an extra boost to acidic ingredients like buttermilk or the acids in baking powder. The result is even more gaseous bubbles (carbon dioxide). These

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