Safe. It shouldn't be harmful, it may just be rancid or it could have picked up something it was stored next to. It may keep that scent or flavor into the finished product which would probably not be a good thing.
Use self-rising flour instead of all-purpose flour, and you can leave out the baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
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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.
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 has baking soda, baking powder and salt added in. All-purpose flour does not have these ingredients, so you have to mix them in if the recipe calls for them. For recipes that call for all-purpose flour, and you are using self-rising flour, you can leave these ingredients out.
Yes, you can substitute flour for Bisquick in a recipe by using a mixture of flour, baking powder, salt, and shortening.
Try just greasing the baking sheet without using flour on the pan. All the recipes I have seen just say greased baking pan no added flour.
You can make sugar cookies without using baking soda by using baking powder instead, or by using self-rising flour which already contains leavening agents.
Yes. But add twice as much. When you use self-raising flour, add 1 tspoon of baking powder, to lighten the cake. So just add about 1 tbspoon if using plain flour.
When using plain (regular) flour and the recipe calls for self-raising flour you must add a good teaspoon of baking powder to the flour. That will turn plain flour into self-raising 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.
Using self raising flour. Sieving the flour Rubbing in the fat to the flour, raising fingertips high. Adding buttermilk/baking soda