On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 5:37:42 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
> On 2019-12-04 2:59 p.m., 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
> >
> I can understand that. I am a baker and I stock SR, cake, AP and bread
> flours as well as baking powder and soda. In the UK, SR flour is widely
> available and is in the pantry of every home baker.
> Graham

I'm not much of a baker, but it seems unlikely to me that very many things
that require baking powder all require the same amount. Brownies
don't need much, for example.

Cindy Hamilton