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How to Make Your Own Self Rising Flour

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Most recipes for baked goods call for all purpose flour, however once in a while you might come across a recipe you want to try that calls for self rising flour. Can you just go ahead and use your all purpose flour anyway? No, it’s best not to if you want your recipe to turn out well. There is a difference between the two. So here’s a handy way to just make your own self-rising flour!

The difference between self rising flour and the all purpose flour is that the self rising product already has some baking powder and salt added to it. This is what makes it “self rising” without having to add any other ingredients. But rather than pay the higher price for the self rising flour that you might not use very often, you can quickly and simply stir together a homemade version of self rising flour by adding the baking powder and salt yourself.

ingredients to make homemade self-rising flour

So here’s the basic formula: To each 1 cup of all purpose flour, you add 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Just whisk those ingredients together and you now have a quick DIY self-rising flour substitute you can use in your recipes.

homemade self-rising flour

The nice thing about having a formula like this is that you can make as small or as large of a batch as you would like. In the printable recipe below, we’ll start with the 1 cup size, but I’ll give you larger measurements too all the way up to a 6 cup batch.

One more thing to remember is that to measure flour it’s best to use the dry ingredient measuring cups (the kind that come in a set of varying sizes rather than a glass cup with marks on the sides). I use my measuring cup to scoop enough flour out of my container so that the cup is heaping. Then I use a knife to level it off.

measuring flour for DIY self-rising flour

So the next time a recipe calls for self-rising flour don’t let that stop you thinking that you have to go out and buy another ingredient. If you have all purpose flour, baking powder, and salt in the house, then you can make your own DIY self-rising flour substitute and probably save money too!

More homemade ideas to try:

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Homemade Self-Rising Flour

Use this handy DIY mix that uses pantry ingredients for those times when you may come across a recipe calling for the specialty ingredient of self-rising flour.
Course: DIY Baking Hack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Baking Mix
Author: Beverly

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions:

  • Measure out the cup of all purpose flour into a mixing bowl.  
  • Add in the baking powder and the salt and mix everything together well with a spoon or a whisk.
  • Store in covered container and use in recipes calling for self-rising flour.

Notes:

Here are some additional measurements for making larger batches of self-rising flour:
2 cups flour, 1 Tbl baking powder, 1 tsp salt
3 cups flour, 4½ tsp baking powder, 1½ tsp salt
4 cups flour, 2 Tbl baking powder, 2 tsp salt
5 cups flour, 7½ tsp baking powder, 2½ tsp salt
6 cups flour, 3 Tbl baking powder, 1 Tbl salt
 

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  7. How much flour,baking powder & salt do I need to make 350gms & 225gms of self-raising powder respectively?

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    1. I’m not familiar with grams but after doing some research I think one conversion combination that would work would be 256 grams of flour with 9 grams of baking powder and 3 grams of salt. Here’s a link to a good conversion chart on the AllRecipes website if you want to try to do some of the math too:
      http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions

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