I’ve always said that I like a good balance of cooking and baking in my life. But man oh man, somehow I have gotten on a mega baking kick lately. And since I tend to prefer savory to sweet, the object of my affection as of late has been this epic 3-ingredient biscuit recipe that has pretty much changed my life. Ok, at least it has changed my breakfast. I have already made it 3 times since and counting!
That recipe is coming on the blog tomorrow. But for today, I thought I would post a quick tutorial for how to make one of the three ingredients homemade — self-rising flour!
It’s fairly rare that I have a bag of self-rising flour sitting in my pantry, partly because it doesn’t stay fresh as long with that baking powder mixed in. But mostly because it is so darn easy to make homemade! I’m not kidding. All you need are three easy ingredients — all-purpose (or pastry) flour, salt and baking powder — and you have an easy substitution ready for any recipe that calls for self-rising flour to help those biscuits, pancakes, cakes and more fluff up.
So bookmark this recipe if you ever need it for the future. (Hint hint — tomorrow!)
One quick note about the actual flour base in all-purpose flours. I have always used just traditional all-purpose flour in the substitution. But some brands (i.e. White Lily, King Arthur Flour and others) use cake or pastry flour in place of all-purpose, because it is low-protein. I’ve never found that it makes a huge difference. But if a recipe specifically calls for one of those, you might want to use cake or pastry flour instead.
Self-Rising Flour
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Whisk all ingredients together until blended.
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
Would whole wheat flour work for this?
It will yield a different texture and flavor.
Thank you so much for this! I’m often faced with having to bypass recipes I want to make when I don’t have self-rising flour on hand. Now those days are over :)
YES! Pinned!
Have you tried this with whole wheat flour instead of white flour?
perfect!
Thank you for this! I needed it for a recipe just this week, but didn’t want to go to the trouble of buying a whole bag. Pinned!
Wowoowoowowowo! you are my angel!! I always wonder what is in the self-raising flour. Whichever recipe calls for self-raising flour, I need to rush to store and buy that in order to make it. But more frustrating is the rest of the flour will sit there and forgotten…eventually to the garbage…. my dollars as well!
Love your “formula” no more buying from the shore. You save my cents and dollars. Thanks.
So nifty!! The last thing I need is ANOTHER bag of flour hanging around that I only use twice year – I’d totally rather make it from scratch!
This is so good to know! Thanks for sharing!
Oh wow, that’s good to know!