While most baking recipes call for all-purpose flour or sometimes cake flour, you'll occasionally see self-rising flour listed as an ingredient. There's a reason for this: Self-rising flour acts ...

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You can make your own self-rising flour by adding 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt to 1 cup all purpose flour. Mix together with a fork or a whisk. In a YouTube video demonstrating ...

This is key. For many years, I made biscuits clumsily and haphazardly. While they typically turned out just fine, my ...