Home cooks have shared the simple tricks to help you identify plain and self-raising flour in just seconds. One mother, from New South Wales, prompted a discussion on social media after she forgot ...

For those looking for the perfect rise on their cakes, there’s a simple way to make your own self-raising flour at home and it requires just two ingredients – plain flour and baking powder.

Self-raising flour is widely available in UK supermarkets. Outside of the UK and USA, it is not commonly used. Self-raising flour will not keep for very long. The baking powder absorbs moisture ...

If you’re the latter, you’ll know the frustration of realising you haven’t given your storage a clear label, and so you now have no clue if the flour inside is self-raising or plain.

So can you use plain or self-raising flour for pancakes? In Britain, pancakes are traditionally made with plain flour. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Plain flour pancakes tend to create ...

Self-raising flour is the key, either that or plain flour with some baking powder mixed through. In the baking process, the flour rises to the top and the heavier sauce falls to the bottom.

Seen as a necessity by many British and American bakers, trying to find this ingredient in German supermarkets will result in frustration. When I first heard about how difficult it is to find self ...

If you have leftover self-raising flour, you can still make a delicious batch of pancakes. In fact, some may prefer to use self-raising flour due to the fact it contains salt and baking powder ...