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Plain flour + Baking Powder ?
Andy Birkenhead
24-05-2014
Why do some cake recipes say to use Plain Flour and Baking Powder ?
Why not just simply use Self-Raising Flour ?
Isambard Brunel
24-05-2014
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.
degsyhufc
24-05-2014
Andy, you seem like a passionate cake maker and have been doing it for a while. How on earth did you not know that?
noise747
24-05-2014
i normally use plain flour and baking powder. i know what I am putting in then.
burton07
25-05-2014
I don't even use baking powder. I use Cream of Tartar and Bicarb
njp
25-05-2014
Originally Posted by burton07:
“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"...
queenshaks
25-05-2014
Originally Posted by njp:
“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!
burton07
25-05-2014
I make my own flour by milling some wheat and blah blah blah
Andy Birkenhead
25-05-2014
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“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 !
Welsh-lad
25-05-2014
I shall be reaping my wheat field in August, prior to grinding etc.
noise747
25-05-2014
Originally Posted by njp:
“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
burton07
25-05-2014
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.
Welsh-lad
25-05-2014
Originally Posted by burton07:
“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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