How Does a Lemon Make Biscuits Rise?

A lemon helps make biscuits rise by letting tiny air bubbles grow inside the dough.

When you mix a lemon into the biscuit dough, it starts to do something like a tiny bubbling volcano, it makes little air bubbles in the dough. These bubbles are like invisible balloons that want to float up and out.

When you put the dough in the oven, the heat gives energy to those air bubbles. They start to expand, just like when you blow up a balloon. As they grow bigger, they push the dough up, making the biscuits get taller and fluffier.

It’s kind of like when you fill a balloon with air and watch it puff out. The more air inside, the more it pushes against the sides.

So the lemon is like a secret helper that makes the biscuit light, fluffy, and not flat, just like how a balloon fills up with air and becomes bigger!