Flour is probably the most essential pantry staple to have on hand—for baking, making pasta dough or to use as a thickening agent for gravy and sauces—but do you ever wonder about the difference ...

Self-rising flour always seems to be that one ingredient in a recipe you don’t have stashed away in the pantry. It is called for in some recipes for pancakes and fried foods, but not so often that you ...

It's natural to assume that because self-rising flour eliminates the need for leavening agents in your baked goods that it is a better choice than all-purpose flour for baking. In some cases, this is ...

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A three-ingredient biscuit recipe in a Christmas event booklet made me question what I knew about a very basic ingredient: flour. The booklet was published for the 2003 Weihnachtsmarkt, a Christmas ...

The Washington Post food staff recently fielded questions about all things edible. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. I watched a master class episode with Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood recently ...

If you're a novice baker (or maybe even if you're an experienced one), you may think there's no difference between cake flour and all-purpose flour. Flour is flour, right? Wrong. There's actually a ...