If you’ve spent any time baking from Southern recipes, you’ve almost certainly run across self-rising flour. It shows up in biscuit recipes, quick breads, and pancake batters, and if you’ve ever tried ...

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 ...

Fluffy, buttery, and pillowy-light, angel biscuits are a Southern delicacy. Requiring yeast for an extra oomph in the rise, the structure of these sky-high confections is more akin to a dinner roll ...

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 ...

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 ...