"Fiddle faddle!" Yep. That's probably what you say to yourself when you realize that your recipe calls for self rising flour. You tear through your pantry searching for the elusive powdery substance...alas, you have all purpose flour! Fiddle faddle indeed.
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NO!!! Self rising flour is easy peasy! Trust this girl. Please. I used to think that self rising flour was a special, contrived mixture only available for purchase on a shelf. HA! Did you know that you can make it yourself??
Easy as can be, people. And it calls for only three ingredients. Three! You probably already have them in your pantry that is now a mess. (See first paragraph) Those ingredients are:
Flour (yes, all purpose!)
Baking Powder
Salt
That's right, there's no special powdered ram's horn or something crazy like that. It's incredibly simple. The recipe is as follows:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Just stir it all together and PRESTO! You have self rising flour. Really! Most of the baking that I do will require more self rising flour than the recipe above yields, so I just triple or even quadruple it. No biggie.
For the Novice Baker: A Word About Baking Powder
Baking POWDER is totally different from baking SODA. If you mix them up in your recipe, your result may be...well, icky. :( So, let's pay attention and not bake gross stuff!
Happy Baking!
<3, Meg
