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Subject: Re: Biscuits in the year of our lord 20250203!
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:57:52 +0000
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:15:31 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2025-02-06 11:09 a.m., dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, it was the Brits that invented self-rising flour. Well,
>> that's if you insist on calling selling flour with baking powder and
>> salt already in it an "invention."
>
> It must be an invention. People buy it. I don't. I guess the big trick
> was to get people to publish recipes that called for it. Instead of
> adding a little baking powder to flour a lot of people will go out and
> pay more for the self rising flour.
>
>
I just checked the online prices at Kroger for plain and
self-rising flour.  The price is the same for both with
the exception of one or two brands PLAIN flour being the
more expensive of the two.

Pretty much the same difference in prices at Walmart as
well.