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Making Self Raising Flour

kah22's picture
kah22

Making Self Raising Flour

I ran out of self raising flour yesterday and decided to make my own 360 grams to 3 teaspoons of baking soda - the result was horrible!

I had checked various websites and all the results seemed the same, 1 tsp baking soda to 100g of flour, but how much is in a tsp ?  I like to bake by weight 250 mills milk = 250 g therefore your measurements are always the same.

So in making your own self raising flour what is the exact weight to weight proportion for making self raising flour?

Thanks for your answers

 

Kevin

idaveindy's picture
idaveindy

Welcome back!

It's _baking powder_, not _baking soda_.  A different thing. 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+make+self-rising+flour

If you're not in the US, the names may be different, and not a literal translation.  For pictures of baking powder cans/packages, and lists of possible ingredients (they are not all the same between brands) see: https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/12997/baking-powder

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Technically, it is possible to use baking soda, but you have to use a much smaller amount of baking soda than baking powder, and you must add additional things like cream of tartar.  It is simpler to just use baking powder in the first place.  The above Duckduckgo search link may include a recipe that uses baking soda plus cream of tartar.

Further information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baking_powder

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Good luck, and bon appétit.

kah22's picture
kah22

 Yes, it’s often easier to see what you think you should!  I’ve checked some of my go to sites and yes it’s baking powder 😯

But as I said in my original post I  prefer to use weight.  So again anyone know how many grams of baking powder to 100 g plain flourf

 

Kevin

idaveindy's picture
idaveindy

King Arthur is the authority that I look to for volume to weight conversions:

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart

You can take the volume measurements for flour and baking powder  from whatever recipe for self-rising flour that you hold as authoritative, then use the KA chart and a little math.

Debra Wink's picture
Debra Wink

3 teaspoons (=1 tablespoon) weighs 12 grams

Baking powder is 4 grams/teaspoon.

idaveindy's picture
idaveindy

KA's recipe for self-rising flour is here: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/homemade-self-rising-flour-recipe

Be advised that in certain countries, which I think includes UK and IE, commercial self-rising flour does not include salt.  While in the US, self-risng flour does include salt.

So be careful not to include salt when initially making your home-made self-rising flour... if ... your recipes that call for said flour assume there is no salt already in it.

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alcophile

My can of Rumford brand baking powder lists the following weight for baking powder:

1/8th teaspoon = 0.6 g

12 tsp. × 0.6 g = 7.2 g baking powder per 120 g AP flour