Help, what is all-purpose flour?

tiff

I have an American recipe for cookies which uses all-purpose flour. Any ideas which I should use, plain or self-raising. I am really dumb when it comes to cooking.

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Spendless

I have just done a google search for you and found

"all purpose flour translates as plain flour"

sorry i can't link you in (i'm useless with the pc) but hope it helps.

tiff

Thanks Spendless, I shouldnt have been so lazy and done the search myself. Thanks very much

tillytot_2

i never knew that, i have been using sr flour for years with an american recipe, will try it with plain next time,

thanks for the heads up,

tillytot.

halloweenqueen_2

I still use Sr flour instead of all purpose! as it seems to work better! I don't know if its something to do with the amount of baking powder you are supposed to put in but when i switched to plain when I realised what it was just didn't get the results.

lynzpower

Got a recipe to use, and it says "all purpose flour" is that plain or self raising?

I presume plain?

Ted_Hutchinson

lynzpower wrote:

Got a recipe to use, and it says "all purpose flour" is that plain or self raising?

I presume plain?

Tell us what you are making and we'll tell you what we would use for that.

lynzpower

Snickers & peanut butter muffins

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/breadqkmuf/breadqkmuf142.html

I did used to have the recipe book, but gave it back to my mate they are Nigella, and so goooood

Jolaaled

lynzpower wrote:

Got a recipe to use, and it says "all purpose flour" is that plain or self raising?

I presume plain?

It's the american term for plain flour.
On the flour and grain website it quotes:

"Where can I get all purpose flour?
All purpose flour is sold in the UK as plain flour. '

lynzpower

Cheers

Sorry completely missed that in my excitement lol

Ted_Hutchinson

lynzpower wrote:

Snickers & peanut butter muffins

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/breadqkmuf/breadqkmuf142.html

I did used to have the recipe book, but gave it back to my mate they are Nigella, and so goooood

As your recipe uses baking powder you wouldn't need to use self-raising as that way you would have double the amount of raising agent.