Your Tuesday Tip: Self-Rising Flour

Today's tip comes via Southern Biscuits by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubert with some minor whole grain modifications by me.

To make your own light, semi-whole-wheat self-rising flour: 

Whisk together 1/2 cup white whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder.  

The combination of white whole wheat and regular all-purpose will get close to the protein content of the soft white flour that you get in the South, while still bringing some whole-grain goodness to help you avoid the diabetes you get in the South.  (I totally wrote this last week before Paula Deen made her announcement.) 

Make yourself up at least a couple cups worth, because I'll be back with your definitive vegan biscuit recipe on Thursday.

And in the meantime, I'm sticking a couple coupons (for free tribe hummus and quorn vegan burgers) in the box.  I'm having so much fun reading about all of your culinary highlights.  If you haven't already, go enter yourself in the Win-This-Box Sweepstakes.  I'll draw a comment at random(from that post only) on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.  There's still a lot of room in the box!