Just use it to taste. Unless you’re making sodium citrate for cheese sauce (where the correct ratio of bicarb and citric acid is important) you don’t need to worry. Most recipes with lemon juice add it at the end anyway, to preserve the fresh lemon flavour (which gets destroyed by cooking).
Just use it to taste. Unless you’re making sodium citrate for cheese sauce (where the correct ratio of bicarb and citric acid is important) you don’t need to worry. Most recipes with lemon juice add it at the end anyway, to preserve the fresh lemon flavour (which gets destroyed by cooking).