On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 4:59:08 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 4:50:35 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 5:11:43 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >
> > > Do they not offer a self-rising cornmeal?
> >
> > I've never seen the point in self-rising anything. I have baking powder
> > and baking soda. It's the work of a few seconds to add it to the other
> > dry ingredients.
> >
> > What do you do when non-self-rising is called for? Stock both kinds?
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> Well, since I'm not a baker, I don't buy or store non self-rising flour or
> cornmeal. But why buy and store separate ingredients to add when they're already in flour or cornmeal? That's like buying powdered milk to drink
> and having to mix it when you can buy milk in a jug at the store.
> incorporated into either

Because not every use of flour benefits from having the leavening in
it already. I'd have to have self-rising flour for quick breads AND
regular flour for yeast-raised goods.

I don't use cornmeal at all, so I can't speak to its non-leavened uses.

Cindy Hamilton