Light Brown S-R Flour????

starlightdisco

Been and bought a kids cook book today to get dd involved more in the kitchen.

All the recipes combine S-R flour with light brown S-R Flour.

What is it cos I've never heard of it

noonesperfect

Only thing I can think of is self raising wholemeal flour. I suppose if you were to use that you could get rid of the bran (sifting) if you didn't want the food to be too high fibre for kids.

Swan_2

I've never heard of it either

but imagine it would be brown self-raising, I think if it was wholemeal it would actually say so

I'm sure there'll be someone along soon who has a definitive answer



EDIT ... been thnking more about this, perhaps it is just a clumsy way of differentiating brown flour from wholemeal?

Sharra

I'd just use wholemeal self-raising

Seakay

example of wholemeal self rising flour:
http://www.allinsonflour.co.uk/rootpopups/p_flours_culin_whsrf.cfm

Actually, you could just add baking powder to the recipe at the rate of 3 level teaspoons to every 250g plain wholemeal (or 81% wholemeal, sometimes called fine wholemeal) flour.

Baking powder can be made by combining bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar in the ratio of 1-2 eg 1 teaspoon bicarb to every 2 teaspoons cream of tartar. It can be worth doing this if you use baking powder very occasionally because it does gradually start to loose it's potency after opening.