How to turn plain flour into self-raising
If you've run out of self-raising flour and need it to whip up a favourite cake or some scones, there's no need to head out to the shops as it's easy to make self-raising flour from plain flour.
The difference between plain and self-raising flour, as the name suggests, is that the latter has raising agents to help your baking rise. While plenty of cakes use plain flour (also known as all-purpose), they'll include additional ingredients like baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. But if you have a cake that has self-raising flour on the ingredient list and you only have plain, you can make your own self-raising flour at home in no time.
Make plain flour into self-raising flour with this easy tip from Juliet Sear, a baking expert often featured on This Morning.
"Just add a couple of teaspoons of baking powder to every 200g of plain flour and dry whisk through to distribute it evenly through the flour," Juliet told Prima.co.uk. "It will always work!"
This is so easy, we may never buy self-raising flour again!
Indeed, on TV cook Nigella Lawson's website it states, "Nigella tends not to use self-raising flour in her more recent books as she doesn't bother to keep both plain (all-purpose) and self-raising flour. Partly as keeping just one type of flour saves on storage space and partly as if you don't use self-raising flour regularly then it will lose its raising power over time."
So there you have it – if it's good enough for Nigella, it's certainly good enough for us.
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