"dsi1" wrote in message
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On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 12:48:49 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 5:56:02 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 12:37:42 PM UTC-10, 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 believe you. Self-rising flour was invented in the UK. Why did that
> > create it? Beats me. It was introduced to the US but mostly it was
> > embraced by the cooks down South. Why mostly the South? Beats me. OTOH,
> > the US has its own dry mix product which was introduced in the 1930s -
> > Bisquick. It was popular even on this rock. I should try SR flour since
> > I've heard about it for decades.
>
> Bisquick already has the fat (partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening)
> mixed in. It's not the same as self-rising flour.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I never said that it was the same thing. The idea behind both products was
to shorten the time that it took to make biscuits. I have a couple of dry
mix products that I use - a pancake mix and a cornbread mix. As it goes,
these products work brilliantly. Rest assured that I know it's not the same
thing as SR flour.

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