Brodie makes a self-rising flour specifically for cakes and pastries. The major difference between all-purpose flour and cake and pastry flour is that one is finer and because you do not need the same amount of gluten in cakes it can produce a finer lighter cake. Good luck!
That is approximately 3.612 cups
They main difference is in the amount of proteins. Pastry flour has less proteins about 8% or 9% while all purpose flour can be as much as 12% or so
You can make a shortcrust-like pastry with self-raising flour, however it will have more of a cakey consistency than a normal pastry consistency. If your only option is to make the pastry with self-raising flour, remember to roll the pastry thinner than usual to negate the rising effect.
Flour with no rising agents added for example baking powder
To make self-rising flour from regular flour, you can mix 1 cup of all-purpose flour with 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. This will create the equivalent of self-rising flour for your baking needs.
To turn regular flour into self-rising flour, you can mix 1 cup of all-purpose flour with 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. This will give you the equivalent of self-rising flour for your baking needs.
Well, it will work OK as regular flour, but I would not count on it rising.
Regular flour and self rising measure the same. You have to add either baking powder or baking soda to regular flour. If the recipe has yeast in it, you have to use regular 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.
Only use self-rising flour (aka self-raising) as a substitute for regular flour if the recipe gives instructions for doing so. Self-rising flour contains salt and leavening and cannot be used as a direct replacement in all recipes that call for plain flour.Well once I made biscuits with regular flour and they were rock hard, so unless you want rocks instead of fluffy soft biscuits, then you can't use rugular flour instead of self-rising.
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