10 kg self-raising flour...

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Long story... I've had a massive sack of self-raising flour for a while and it's now slightly out of date. I still want to use it - at least part of it.

Can I bake bread with it! I imagine not, but I thought I'd ask. What would you do with it? We're trying to cut down in cake at home, which is not helpful...

That's a lot of flour.

How out of date?

Lots of recipes online to make bread with SR flour.

You can use it for crumble, pancakes, Yorkshire pud, but it would take a lot of them to get you through ten kilos. There are lots of self-raising flour bread recipes on Google but I can't vouch for the quality of any of them, maybe a bread expert will come along.

If it’s white flour it may still be ok for a few months past the Best By date . Make sure that it does not have clumps , which indicate that it has got moist . Then give it a good sniff . It should smell neutral and not rancid.
If in doubt you could freeze it to kill off any moulds and use it for non edible purposes like home made play dough - but that is an awful lot play dough !

SR flour makes soda bread not yeasty bread. Texture would be like scones. The baking powder that is already mixed in with the flour would inhibit the action of the yeast if you tried to use it in that.

Do you have a big freezer? Any kind of baked goods is going to take up a LOT of space but you would be better off buying a bunch of ziplock bags and freezing the raw flour in 500g-750g portions and using it slowly. It will keep fine, but you may need to top up the activity with a tad extra baking powder when you bake with it.

Otherwise google for local charity, school and church events and bake loads of cakes to donate

You can freeze it. It is easy enough to pour small amounts out when you need them, and stays fresh for ages once frozen. I often make extra bags of scone mix and freeze, then add milk and bake without defrosting.

Hope you have a big freezer!

Pancakes for breakfast on a regular basis! If it is out of date, you may need to add some baking powder.

Also make a big batch of scones and freeze them.

Scone time!

Or get a head start on mince pies?

Time to buy a chest freezer, I think! I only have a little one 🙂

Probably more sensible to use some, freeze a little and give some away rather than buy an enormous freezer.

Might be good idea to make what you can and give it away . Family or friends or Do you have a local community Facebook group? Maybe there are groups that cook for old people etc that would welcome it?
It is better than getting wasted and by the time you've bought the other ingredients you'll have spent a fortune.

If you're not an avid baker I'd just give it away to others who could use it up quickly.

Have you checked it for flour weevils?

It's unopened, so I imagine it's fine.

Not guaranteed it's fine just cos it's unopened, weevils come from eggs that may already be in the flour rather than from an outside source. White soda bread assuming the baking powder element of it is weakening it will nearly be similar to plain flour and as it's bread/bicarbonate of soda you use with buttermilk to rise soda bread it might work. It's still a lot of flour to work through though! I'd give some away if you have that option.

Assuming the flour is still good to use, a way to use it without baking involved is flatbread. With a base of self-raising flour, salt and yoghurt, you get a lovely soft dough you can roll out and dry-fry on a non-stick pan. I make wraps, garlic flatbread, and a sort of quick version of naan bread this way. You can add herbs or spices to the dough (rosemary, nigella seeds, etc), brush it with butter (plain or flavoured with garlic) or olive olive oil after cooking, or even play with fillings (I used it to make something similar to a naan peshwari). Pretty sure I've seen a recipe using it as a quick pizza base too (this would have to be baked though).

I'm not sure whether it freezes well, but you can give it a go and see. It's so quick to put together that I don't bother.