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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...