Summary: Self-raising flour is a kind of flour made by adding baking powder to the flour and mixing it together, and its formula is refined wheat flour and bulking agent. Self-raising flour can be divided into English self-raising flour and American self-raising flour, English self-raising flour added more baking powder than American self-raising flour, but American self-raising flour also added a small amount of salt. How to make your own self-rising flour? Find out below. First, what is the recipe for self-rising flour

Self-raising flour, is refined wheat flour as a raw material, after the addition of bulking agent premixed into the flour.

Self-raising flour formula ratio: refined wheat flour: bulking agent = 1:0.02-0.04.

Self-raising flour can be divided into British self-raising flour (self-raisingflour) and American self-raising flour (self-risingflour). The two differ in formulation: English self-raisingflour contains more baking powder; American self-raisingflour contains relatively less baking powder and a small amount of salt is added. Therefore, it is important to distinguish between English scones and American cookies.

British self-raising flour:

Medium flour: 125g (1cup)

Baking powder: 6g (2tsp)

American self-raising flour:

Medium flour: 125g (1cup)

Baking powder: 4.5g (1.5tsp)

Salt: 2g (1/2tsp)

Salt: 2g (1/2tsp)

Salt: 2g (2tsp)

Salt: 2g (2tsp)

Salt: 2g (2tsp) )

Two, how to make homemade self-rising flour

Required materials: refined flour, sodium bicarbonate, calcium dihydrogen phosphate, refined wheat flour.

Specific steps: refined flour with sodium bicarbonate and calcium dihydrogen phosphate to make hair-raising agent; refined wheat flour and hair-raising agent ratio of 1:1 mixing and blending, made of self-raising powder.

Most of the commercially available self-raising flour is a mix of baking powder mixed with medium gluten flour. Instead of baking powder, you can use flour with baking powder (50 grams of baking powder can be mixed into 1250 grams of flour.

Three, the characteristics of self-rising flour

1, no need to add yeast, no need to wake up before shaping.

2, convenient, fast, just add the right amount of water in the flour to make a variety of high school and low-grade pasta products, steaming, cooking, frying can be.

Four, the use of self-rising flour

Self-raising flour can be used to do all kinds of baked goods such as pancakes, baked cakes, hot pancakes, etc., but can not be used for wrapping dumplings, dumplings will destroy the gluten so that the broken skin. It can also be used for frying things such as fried chicken, fish, and prawns.