Baking genius' knowledge required.

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Was going to make dumplings to go in stew today, I have suet, don't have any self raising flour and the didn't have any when buying the suet. I thought i'd be okay as I'd seen that you can turn plain flour (i have a little) into self raising using baking powder. However, I don't have baking powder, I have bicarb

Is there anything I can do? I've done my shop for this week and don't really want to go looking round potentially several other stores looking for either the SR flour or the baking powder - I've also promised the dumplings.

You can use the bicarb but you will need to add something acidic such as a dash of vinegar or lemon juice. And use it quickly - as soon as it hits the wet and acid it will start to react.

I have both vinegar and lemon juice :)

Fab thanks. So just add a dash of those when adding in the water to the mix?

similar proportions to the baking powder to plain flour suggested? I think it was about 1tsp to 150g but can look it up again.

Those proportions of bicarb to flour sound about right.

I think it's 1tsp to 175g of flour.

Fab, thanks folks, not made dumplings for a while but young adult DSs craving comfort food I think (and a mcdonalds probably )

Do you have cream of tartar? Cream of tartar + bicarb. = baking powder.

I have a cobbler recipe we love that uses 250g plain flour & 1.5tsp baking powder. If no baking powder, I would use just 1/2 tsp cream of tartar & 1/4tsp bicarb.

No cream of tartar I'm afraid Chewy. I'm not much of a baker, I do bread and roll and pizza bases so I have some strong flour and yeast (rapidly diminishing) and I have a little bit of plain flour and cornflour that I mainly use for thickening stuff. I mostly use the bicarb for the drains/cleaning to be honest...

It's lovely seeing everyone baking more in their now fee time, but we are still working full time so it doesn't really seem that different tbh

I have read about making stuff with lemonade to aid rising!!

No lemonade, just fizzy vimto or raspberry pepsi max or irn bru (all sugar free) - i'm useless at this stuff it seems :)

Thanks all, going to give it a go with the bicarb, dash of lemon, plain flour and suet. I'll report back in several hours...

Thanks all, worked a charm. slight lemony taint but not noticeable when eaten with everything else and possibly just my imagination. Rose well and were light and fluffy :)