If you've been baking more than usual lately, you're not alone. Many times a tempting new recipe will call for all-purpose flour or even a unique flour that you'll only use once, like bread or cake ...

Common pantry ingredients like AP flour, rice flour, and potato starch behave similarly to cornstarch when it comes to thickening, baking, and frying.

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Can’t find all-purpose flour? Out of whole-wheat? Here’s what you can use instead. By Erin Jeanne McDowell Baking is a science, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to make substitutions. With some ...

Self-rising flour makes impossibly fluffy pancakes, sky-high biscuits and muffins that rival any bakery’s. But it’s not all that common in recipes, plus it has a short shelf life, so stocking up isn’t ...

Cake flour has a lower protein content, so bakes come out light and airy. If you don't have it, you can substiture all-purpose flour plus cornstarch.

White Lily flour is famous in the South as the go-to ingredient for soft, pillowy baked goods. If you can't readily find the flour near you, here's what to use.