When baking a sweet potato pie you should use flour to thicken the potato pulp if is too liquid, but no more than 1 level tablespoon for two cups of prepared sweetened pulp. If you have used eggs in your recipe there really is not reason to ever use baking powder until you're putting it in the recipe for the pie crust. One 9-inch pie crust should hold approximately 2 - 2 1/2 cups of potato pulp.
You can replace the eggs with a "flax egg" which is just flax meal and water, instructions for this are on most packages of flax meal you could buy. There are gluten free alternatives (I'm guessing that's your concern) to making pie crust besides using wheat flour or you can make it with no crust at all.
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You can use plain flour with a teaspoon of baking powder.
Follow the recipe for the amount of baking powder to use whether your using regular flour or cake flour. Neither of them have baking powder, unless it is "self rising" which means leavening is included.
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No. Baking powder doen't work anything like flour when it comes to gravy. You might be able to use other thickeners but if you're making gravy by making a roux and then adding liquid, you pretty much have to use flour.
If a recipe calls for self-rising flour, your recipe will not turn out if you replace it with unbleached flour only because unbleached flour does not rise. You would also need to add baking powder to the recipe (about three teaspoons per cup of flour) if you were making this substitution in order for your recipe to rise.
Use self-rising flour instead of all-purpose flour, and you can leave out the baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
You can use self rising flour. Just omit any salt, baking soda, and baking powder. The texture is not as "heavy" and is the way I like it. Very tasty.
I often use flour (all purpose) in recipes calling for bisquick. I just add a little bit of baking powder and a tiny bit of salt.
Hmmm. One can not substitute flour with baking powder. One can however substitute selfraising flour with ordinary flour and a few teaspoons of baking powder. (My best guess would be approx 1 teaspoon of baking powder per 150-200 grams of flour.)
If you add baking powder so what you are making will rise. If you look through most recipes, most use 1 teaspoon of baking powder for each cup of flour. By using whole wheat flour, the finished product will be heavier with a coarser texture. If you are using all whole wheat flour with no white flour, I would use 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder per cup of flour. A lot of whole wheat recipes will use half whole wheat, half white.
Add one rounded teaspoon of baking powder to each cup of flour. I frequently do this and it always work. Note - not a flat teaspoon of baking powder, not a heaped teaspoon but a rounded teaspoon!
Self-rising flour consists of flour, baking powder, and salt. So the flour here is ordinary flour to which you add bicarbonate of soda and salt. Baking powder is baking soda, an acid salt, and cornstarch (the effect is to create carbon dioxide when it is placed in a solution). To make self-rising flour, take one cup of flour and add one and a half (1 1/2) teaspoons of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.