PLAIN FLOUR
 

Hi
Just wondered if anybody knew if you can get plain and self raising flour from a spanish shop and what is it is in spanish? I needed some to make yorkshire puddings and asked for plain flour but they didnt know what I was talking about! In the end I used flour that they use for frying fish. I know I can buy both flour from english shops, but I like to use spanish shops.

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harina is flour and they sell it in Mercadona

Jo x

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Look in the thread "Cooking helpline for ex pats", lots of info re flour etc.,

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Self raising flour is called levadura.
For plain flour I usually buy harina for repostería.

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It´s actually called harina con levadura. Levadura on its own is yeast, or raising agent.

I once used harina for frying fish for my yorkshire puddings and they were horrible.

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Yeah, thanks for being very precise. Jojojo had already established for the OP that the word for flour=harina. I'm sure the OP wouldn't confuse baking powder or yeast for flour!

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Harina de Trigo is plain flour.. BUT be careful, they sell many types for specific purposes. We bought some to use for pastry, when we added the water etc to the white flour, it turned brown.

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If you have taken my being precise as a criticism of your post then you have taken it completely the wrong way. I was trying to be helpful. Perhaps I should think again in future.

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Yes but its not the same as engish flour.you can buy english homepride in mercadona

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Yes! you can buy English and spanish flour in Mercadona! The Spanish word for flour is Harina

:blink::blink:

Jo x

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But why would you want to buy Homepride flour at such a high price compared to Spanish flour?

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cos apparently yorkshire puddings dont taste as good when they´re made with Spanish flour, especially if its the flour thats normally used to fry fish in and sometimes it makes them go brown. I guess it stands to reason, Yorkshire puds are typically britsh, so one should only use british flour

Another solution is to go to your nearest Iceland store (there´s one in Fuengirola) and buy a bag of "Aunt Bessies" frozen yorkshire puds, ready made!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Jo

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99% of the time I try and buy Spanish but not where flour for yourkshire pudding is concerned, I have tried all sorts and UK flour really is the best:thumbup:

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I can certainly see the problem with a Yorkshire pudding made with the flour used for frying fish!

As far as I know, there are four types of white flour available.

Harina de Trigo para Reposteria - for cakes.
Harina de Trigo para rebozada - coating flour for frying.
Harina de trigo con levadura - self raising flour.
Harina de trigo with no specific description or possibly para panaderia - plain flour. This makes good bread.

The Spanish self raising flour seems to be a recent innovation and should work OK compared to English SR flour.

You can , of course, turn ordinary flour into SR flour by adding baking powder (easily available).

Apart from the above differences, Spanish flour is "harder" than English flour - that means it has more gluten which makes it more suitable for making bread.

Whether this hardness affects Yorkshires I do not know - I would be interested to hear the results if someone wants to try the "new" Spanish self raising flour.

As jojo said, if all else fails, there's always Aunt Bessies!

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Yourkshire pudding should me made with plain flour for best result. I don't use S/R I always buy plain flour, add baking powder and sieve for my cakes:thumbsup: