Flour

[KannikaP]

Hey all you Master Bakers out there. Is the flour I buy in the supermarket self-raising or not? ie Do they have baking powder/soda added?

There are cake, all purpose and bread flours available. Obviously bread flour is not, but what about the other two, please.

[worgeordie]

I buy White Wings flour from Australia and it clearly states

Plain or Self raising on the packet, others do not which is

why I don't buy them ,although they are cheaper.

regards Worgeordie 

[CharlieH]

From a purely "use" point of view I would say no they do not because the results I had assuming "may be" they did were bad. Adding to them produced better results, IMHO

[BritManToo]

52 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

There are cake, all purpose and bread flours available. Obviously bread flour is not, but what about the other two, please.

Cake flour is finely milled low gluten flour and produces fluffy cakes.

All purpose flour I use for pancakes, tortillas, scones, Yorkshire puddings whenever you want a more solid end product.

 

Unless it says 'self-raising' on the packet there is no baking powder in it.

Baking powder is very cheap, add 1 level teaspoon to 100gm of ordinary flour and you have self-raising flour.

Edited April 20, 2021 by BritManToo

[pgrahmm]

All the flours I bake with here need either yeast or baking powder to rise....

I have not seen any labelled self rising flour here - even in the remarkably well stocked bakers specialty shop in our nearby marketplace....