Word Origin & History. regimen mid-15c., act of governing, from O.Fr. regimen (14c.), from L. regimen rule, guidance, government, from regere to rule (see regal). Medical sense of course of diet, exercise, etc. for sake of health first recorded late 15c.
Soda bread. Soda bread (Irish: arÃ¡n sÃ³ide, Scots: fardel, Serbian: Äesnica / ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐ°) is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as baking soda) is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast.
Baking soda is a white crystalline powder (NaHCO 3) better known to chemists as sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate, or sodium acid carbonate. key step in the process occurs in the carbonating tower. Here, the saturated soda ash solution moves from the top of the tower downward. As it falls, the solution cools and reacts with carbon dioxide to form sodium bicarbonate crystalsâbaking soda.