The Washington Post food staff recently fielded questions about all things edible. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. I watched a master class episode with Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood recently ...

If you’ve spent any time baking from Southern recipes, you’ve almost certainly run across self-rising flour. It shows up in… ...

Save yourself a trip to the store with this easy formula for homemade self-rising flour. If you don't bake frequently, it probably isn't practical to keep your pantry stocked with an endless array of ...

Smith says to make a cup of self-rising flour, simply measure out 1 level cup of all-purpose flour. Add 1½ teaspoons of baking powder and one-fourth of a teaspoon salt. Whisk to combine, and it's ...

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 ...

Self-rising flour and heavy cream are the only two ingredients you need to make these fluffy, tender homemade biscuits. When I am sick of cooking and sick of answering the question, what’s for dinner?

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 ...