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Julie Bove[_2_]

"graham" > wrote in message
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> 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.

I don't think it's very common here.