how to turn whole meal plain flour into self raising? how much bicarb?

[GaryBaldbiscuit]

clever people

You need baking powder not bicarb.

oh isnt that the same?

No.

oh thanks

so how much

Google is your friend.

i know but mumsnet is better

specifically whole meal

It often says on the side of the box of baking powder

4 tbsp per lb. HTH.

ah

You need 2:1 cream of tartar to bicarb to making baking powder. (2tsp cream of tartar to 1tsp bicarb) and you need about 2tsp baking powder to every 6oz (150g) plain wholemeal flour.

thanks odd socks

marvellous

I thought you needed to increase it by 50% for whole meal as it’s denser though?

I've always used 1 tsp/ 100g.

When I was little we used to make baking powder from 2x cream of tartar and 1 x bicarb.

now i am confused, but agree, it is denser, hence my asking the clever folk

I use 4tsp per 225g whether white or wholemeal.

You’re going to have to bake a lot of cakes with all the different answers and tell us whose ratio is best!

thanks coriander

i will leave the experimentation to dh

2 tsp per 150g flour. Well thats what all recipes say here (in a country where self raising flour doesn't exist)

4 tbsp per lb

It's nowhere near that much. This is why Mumsnet is not better. Google and find a proper source of information like a flour or baking powder manufacturer. People post all sorts of crap on here and it is taken as Gospel. Very odd indeed.

just baking powder.
it say how much you need on the pack. usually about 1 tsp for 100g flour.

Ta Barbara, Google unhelpful tbh, hence mn, you can ignore the post