Of course, some people just LIKE To complicate matters, and for them, we have the recipe for self-rising flour, and for the rest, just look next to the regular flour at the supermarket:
For 1 cup self-rising flour use:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- a pinch of salt
And let's say you get really crazy and want to make your own baking powder, and I might add, you need a hobby:
Combine dry ingredients
- baking soda (a base)
- cream of tartar (an acid) and
- corn starch (the filler)
To make your own Cream of tartar, combine in a test tube:
- KHC4H4O6
The Stupidest Stupid Recipe of All Time:
Texas Tornado Two-Step Muffins
Ed and Martha Strom were in a hotel in Galveston, Texas, eating dinner, when the management shuttled everyone down to the basement to wait for a tornado to pass. Two good things came from this adventure: Dad’s mysterious impulse the night before to move their car to the other side of the building paid off, being the only car to survive the airborne high-speed detritus undamaged, and Mom took the time to read the Galveston paper and found this astonishing and shamelessly stupid recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 Pint Ice Cream
- 2 cups self-rising flour
Mix the ingredients into a batter, pour into muffin tins. Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes.
(Since a pint = 2 cups, it's equal parts by volume of ice cream and self rising flour. If you accidentally quality-test half the pint of ice cream, just match the remaining volume in self-rising flour and carry on.)
Epilogue: The Japanese Government approached Dad to come train the chickens and farm animals in the art of natural disaster prediction, and Mom has established a grand new reputation by developing and serving rocky road muffins, Cherry Garcia muffins, chocolate chip mint muffins and muffins a la mode.