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A staple in Southern kitchens and across the globe, this pre-mixed flour deserves more real estate in your baking cabinet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Self-rising flour makes impossibly fluffy pancakes, sky-high biscuits and muffins that rival any bakery’s. But it’s not all that ...

While most baking recipes call for all-purpose flour or sometimes cake flour, you’ll occasionally see self-rising flour listed as an ingredient. There’s a reason for this: Self-rising flour acts ...

If you’ve spent any time baking from Southern recipes, you’ve almost certainly run across self-rising flour. It shows up in biscuit recipes, quick breads, and pancake batters, and if you’ve ever tried ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's no need to buy a bag of this specialty flour. Make it at home. Getty Images Self-rising flour always seems to be that one ...

Cake Flour While there are exceptions — some of which we'll be looking at today — flour typically contains protein. When moisture is introduced to this protein and the flour is worked into a dough or ...

Self-rising flour is all-purpose flour combined with baking powder and salt. Unlike all-purpose flour, self-rising flour has a leavening agent that causes baked goods to rise. Self-rising flour is ...