On 12/5/2019 1:40 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 08:11:18 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/4/2019 7:23 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 12/4/2019 5:50 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 5:11:43 PM UTC-5,
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 2:40:51 PM UTC-6, Leo wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There are two corn bread recipes on the Albers' web site.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Starts with 1 cup Albers® Yellow Corn
>>>>>>> Meal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1 cup cornmeal, 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup granulated sugar,
>>>>>>> 1 Tbsp
>>>>>>> baking powder, 1 tsp salt,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> leo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do they not offer a self-rising cornmeal?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've never seen the point in self-rising anything.Â* I have baking powder
>>>>> and baking soda.Â* 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?Â* Stock both kinds?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>
>>>> I agree with you there, Cindy.Â* I've never bought self-rising cornmeal
>>>> (or self-rising flour, for that matter).
>>>
>>> Me either.
>>
>> Thanks, Julie! It may sound like I'm stereotyping, but self-rising
>> seems to be a "Southern" thing. (Hey, I live in the Southern US.) I've
>> never bought self-rising anything. It's easy enough to add the rising
>> ingredients if needed. Leave them out if not.
>>
>> Jill
>
> the only time I bought self rising flour was for a batter (don't
> remember what I was battering). I do remember that the batter turned
> out better than anything I had tried before. I didn't get that flour
> again because it was a long time before I fried anything again and I
> figured that the oomph was gone from the flour
> Janet US
>
Yeah, the oomph probably would go out of SR flour after a while. As it
is, I don't buy flour in large quantities. I store what I do have in
the freezer. Keeps the bugs out. I've definitely never bought
self-rising cornmeal. It's probably available, I just don't look for it.

Jill