Looking for plain flour, am I right in thinking plain flour over here in Canada is called "all purpose flour"?

I tried using that but it just doesn`t seem to cook the same as "uk" plain flour.

Thanks.

Try sieving it twice over...but it's never as good as good ol' Be-Ro

Yes that's the stuff, unfortunately.

Yes that "all purpose flour" certainly doesn`t seem like plain flour to me. Tried making some pancakes (crepes) but the flour just didn`t seem to act the same. I can`t stomach the pancakes over here, I much prefer our crepe-like pancakes.

I buy my OH works pancake mix and it works a treat, also there plain flour is that plain flour, so i would say it depends on the brand that you are buying etc

I also found that i use soda more and baking powder, plus my oven is 100% better in this house than the rental

LB

Can`t remember, but I`ve tried a couple of those pancake mixes but I just don`t like the "spongy" texture of the pancakes here if that makes sense. I just like our yorkshire pudding batter mix.

Lol, ewwww we still have a box of the mix in the cupboard. Just shows the last time I tried those, the mix has a greenish coating on top! I`ll try the "all purpose flour" and sieve a few times as previous poster suggested.

There is extra stuff my OH says to make them fluffy, i know the stuff they produce you can make the standard mix and it doesnt tuen out fluffy and when you add the egg it turns fluffy............if that makes sense ??

My OH has advised try dover flour, not sure what they name it under, but they are under the same group

North American flours and British equivalents:
Cake and pastry flour = soft flour
All-purpose flour = plain flour
Bread flour = strong flour, hard flour
Self-rising flour = self-raising flour
Whole-wheat flour = wholemeal flour


What possible difference could sieving make?


<shakes head>

Same here and I make ours with the flour I buy normally (cake and pastry flour) and comes out ok

I've never found self raising here? And nothing I bake seems to come out the way it used to back home

Try looking for this I'm pretty sure it's in all the grocery stores in Calgary.

The OP was wondering what was wrong with her PLAIN FLOUR - it is unsieved over here so sieving it twice makes it work for plain flour recipes.

As you can't get self-raising flour here you need to make your own.

1 cup plain flour
half tsp salt
1 and a half tsp baking powder

Then guess what...you sieve it together

And in Ontario. Works very well !

addendum: To tea lovers I found PG Tips in a small deli in Burlington last week. It is a branch of a larger one in Hamilton. Wasn't looking for tea, but saw it, bought some .

My OH makes Crepes, he uses all purpose flour and they turn out really great!

You can get self-raising flour here, it's called Pastry/Cake flour.