This homemade self rising flour recipe is one of those super simple recipes that you never think to make but self rising flour can be used to make a lot of different recipes. There’s not need to go out and buy it at the store as most people already have these simple ingredients at home! Here’s how to make self-rising flour!
Homemade Self Rising Flour Recipe
4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. baking powder
Mix the ingredients well and store in an airtight container. Use in recipes calling for self-rising flour. Makes 4 cups.
You just adjust up or down for the amount of self rising flour you need. For example, if you just need one cup of self rising flour, just mix:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
Here are some of our recipes that use self rising flour:
- 2 Ingredient Pizza Dough
- 2 Ingredient Biscuits
- Read about the difference between self rising flour, cake flour and all purpose flour.
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Could you use gluten free flour for this recipe?
For each cup of flour add 1 1/2 tsp. of baking powder and 1/4 tsp. salt. As I usually tell people with most gluten free recipes they will not be exactly the same as using regular flour. Sometimes close but not the same.
How important is salt to self rising flour? Could the amount of salt be cut down, and if so by how much, or could the salt be eliminated entirely?
You can cut it down but remember if the recipe that you use it in calls for 1 tsp. salt if you use the self raising flour you don’t need to add the salt. I know seeing 2 tsp. of salt in this recipe seems like a lot but remember many recipes call for 2 cups flour usually which means you are only using 1 tsp. in the recipe. Sometimes people see a recipe with a lot of salt or sugar and say that is way to much and bad for me but if you divide these things down into servings the amount you are getting will often be 1/8 to a pinch of salt or 1 tsp. of sugar. For example if you make muffins with 2 cups of flour and the recipe makes 12 you divide that 2 tsp of salt by 12 and as you can imagine each serving will have a very small amount.
You can eliminate it but if you take the salt out of most recipes they will loose their flavor and often taste nasty.