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Plain flour + Baking Powder ?
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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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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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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i normally use plain flour and baking powder. i know what I am putting in then.
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I don't even use baking powder. I use Cream of Tartar and Bicarb
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I don't even use baking powder. I use Cream of Tartar and Bicarb
And don't get me started on "Cream of Tartar"... |
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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"...
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I make my own flour by milling some wheat and blah blah blah
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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?
![]() It never occurred to me before !
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I shall be reaping my wheat field in August, prior to grinding etc.
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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"... that i would love to see
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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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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.
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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