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Old 24-05-2014, 12:09
Andy Birkenhead
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Why do some cake recipes say to use Plain Flour and Baking Powder ?
Why not just simply use Self-Raising Flour ?
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Old 24-05-2014, 17:49
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Accuracy.

You've no idea how much baking powder is in self-raising. Whereas if you mix your own, you do. Proper chefs just use plain flower and add whatever additives they need.

It's the same as recipes that call for unsalted butter plus salt, rather than just salted butter.
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Old 24-05-2014, 18:56
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Andy, you seem like a passionate cake maker and have been doing it for a while. How on earth did you not know that?
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Old 24-05-2014, 21:44
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i normally use plain flour and baking powder. i know what I am putting in then.
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Old 25-05-2014, 13:30
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I don't even use baking powder. I use Cream of Tartar and Bicarb
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Old 25-05-2014, 13:38
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I don't even use baking powder. I use Cream of Tartar and Bicarb
Pah. I make my own bicarb by bubbling ammonia gas through a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride under a fume hood. And then I precipitate it out of solution using carbon dioxide before filtering and drying it.

And don't get me started on "Cream of Tartar"...
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Old 25-05-2014, 14:07
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Pah. I make my own bicarb by bubbling ammonia gas through a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride under a fume hood. And then I precipitate it out of solution using carbon dioxide before filtering and drying it.

And don't get me started on "Cream of Tartar"...
Ha ha!
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Old 25-05-2014, 14:13
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I make my own flour by milling some wheat and blah blah blah
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Old 25-05-2014, 15:09
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Andy, you seem like a passionate cake maker and have been doing it for a while. How on earth did you not know that?
I don't really know
It never occurred to me before !
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Old 25-05-2014, 15:17
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I shall be reaping my wheat field in August, prior to grinding etc.
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Old 25-05-2014, 19:28
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Pah. I make my own bicarb by bubbling ammonia gas through a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride under a fume hood. And then I precipitate it out of solution using carbon dioxide before filtering and drying it.

And don't get me started on "Cream of Tartar"...
LOL,

that i would love to see
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Old 25-05-2014, 19:57
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I always start my own planet by creating a cosmic storm and then develop grasses from algae so that I can make wheat by evolving the grasses over millennia.
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Old 25-05-2014, 20:23
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I always start my own planet by creating a cosmic storm and then develop grasses from algae so that I can make wheat by evolving the grasses over millennia.
What a convenience culture we live in.

I always start prior to a big bang event when all the matter in the cosmos exists in a form smaller than a subatomic particle.
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