Self Raising Flour

[carolinemaher]

I know we've had a post about this before but just to say The Oriental supermarket in Hakaniemi haven't sold it for ages now, but Behnfords in the WTC now sell it, just €2 for 500g bag so not as ridiculously expensive as some of their products! Anyway, there if you need it!

[MissAlice]

I know we've had a post about this before but just to say The Oriental supermarket in Hakaniemi haven't sold it for ages now, but Behnfords in the WTC now sell it, just €2 for 500g bag so not as ridiculously expensive as some of their products! Anyway, there if you need it!

Hey thanks for the info, I just found this new cupcake recipe and I've been making home self raising flour,but maybe if I buy this I can tell if there is a difference in the taste or not. Cheers

[carolinemaher]

Hi Miss A, I find that when a recipe calls for self raising flour AND a separate amount of baking powder the results are just not the same as when you make it with adapting the plain flour (add baking powder too it plus the little bit of salt) I made my usual cakes twice using this method and they were nowhere near what they should have been, so really glad I found the SR

[MissAlice]

Hi Miss A, I find that when a recipe calls for self raising flour AND a separate amount of baking powder the results are just not the same as when you make it with adapting the plain flour (add baking powder too it plus the little bit of salt) I made my usual cakes twice using this method and they were nowhere near what they should have been, so really glad I found the SR

Hrmm okay so there is a difference...

Well hey RHANKS again for that info now I am really going to buy sme with out a doubt.

Two thumbs up to this post!

[CAD_Guy]

carolinemaher wrote:
Hi Miss A, I find that when a recipe calls for self raising flour AND a separate amount of baking powder the results are just not the same as when you make it with adapting the plain flour (add baking powder too it plus the little bit of salt) I made my usual cakes twice using this method and they were nowhere near what they should have been, so really glad I found the SR



Hrmm okay so there is a difference...

Well hey RHANKS again for that info now I am really going to buy sme with out a doubt.

Two thumbs up to this post!

Maybe we're doing something wrong but ever since we moved to Finland and figured out the right combination of flour to baking powder we've had no issues at all in regards to our baking or pancake making. I would recommend sifting if you're having troubles. We constantly used self raising when we were in Australia and we're actually getting better results now.

One thing I'll note is to make sure your baking powder isn't old, that makes a world of difference.

Also 2 euro for 500g of flour when you can buy 2kg for 0.69 euro is just insane! Just saying. I think I may be getting more Finnish by the day...

[carolinemaher]

A lot of my recipes from the UK are ones that call for SR flour PLUS baking powder, in these recipes it just doesn't seem to work as well when I have to do use the adapted flour, the baking powder is in date.

For the amount of flour I use a month I don't see €2 as a problem, its a cup of coffee in a cafe!

[CAD_Guy]

A lot of my recipes from the UK are ones that call for SR flour PLUS baking powder, in these recipes it just doesn't seem to work as well when I have to do use the adapted flour, the baking powder is in date.

For the amount of flour I use a month I don't see €2 as a problem, its a cup of coffee in a cafe!

I guess to use the simple term, whatever works for you. I'm not trying to be a dick I'm just saying that the flour here is a bit different and maybe you were getting the ratio a bit wrong. If we lived in the Helsinki area we might consider trying it but as it is we're doing pretty good just using plain flour with baking powder. We use a lot of flour too, last night we made cupcakes for example. They rose just fine.

Also not sure if you ever tried the Euro Shopper brand of flour but that's pretty close to the plain flour we used in Australia.

I wish there was a cafe to buy a good coffee at around here...