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[Mikejelai]

anyone know the korean word/hangul for "self-rising flour?"

[salgichawa]

[Easter Clark]

So next question, how do you say "baking powder" in Korean?

[sheba]

Self rising flour usually has a picture of bread or a cake on the packet... if youre like me and too lazy to translate your grocery list. haha

[Mikejelai]

No, I have the baking powder already.

[ChilgokBlackHole]

[Hyeon Een]

[sheba]

[littlelisa]

Bread flour is bread flour, not self-raising flour. Don't worry, Hyeon. I've been using bread flour to make a lot of stuff too, and it's always worked as bread flour and not self raising flour.

Actually I do know someone who has found self raising flour here, but I forget the name in Korean. I can ask next time I see them, but it won't be soon.

The easiest way is just to make some.

For those who don't know, bread flour is a flour that will make dough with more gluten in it. Not the same thing as self-raising flour. Sheba, I bet you have more kinds of flour back home than you know about.

[Michelle]

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[salgichawa]

[teachingld2004]

I have been baking bread for half my life. There are many differnt kinds of flour here, and they are not hard to figure out. there are pictures on the bag.
The one for noodles is not good for bread. The otfher ones are similar.
Naking powder and baking soda have the names printed in English.
Make your own "self rising" flour. Another poster told you how. I find the yeast here is not the same as it at home but it is fine. I have never had a hard time baking bread.
And for all you people with no ovens, you can easily make English Muffins in a frying pan.

[Ruthdes]

I've never seen SRF, and given the lack of space in kitchens here, I'd rather just keep plain flour and add baking powder (yes 베킹 파우다) to make it. It's not worth the effort to find it. It's easy. 2 tsp baking powder for every cup of plain flour. I bake a lot (just took some brownies out of the oven!), and I've never had any problem doing this.

For everyone's info, there's a kick arse baking district near Dongdaemun. Go to Jongno5ga station, on line 1 and go out exit 7. Walk straight till you cross Cheong-gye-cheon (the stream), then turn right on the road immediately after it. The first left you get to has a sign above it that says 방산종 한 시장. Walk in a bit and you'll find dozens of shops selling ovens, utensils, bake ware, food, and everything else you could need to bake. I suspect you could find SRF there, but for me, the effort is not worth it when my local mart sells plain flour and Emart sells baking powder. It is good to get decent trays and tins though.

[tzechuk]

Sheba, you are wrong. Korea doesn't have self-raising flour. At least not for the general public.

I know this information first hand from one of the chefs who used to make the puddings for the Seoul Pudding Club.

[ChilgokBlackHole]