translation please

[feistycurves]

i'm copying some recipes from online and there are some things that i think are american versions of english things, but i don't know what they are.

cake flour? is this plain or self-raising?
cream of tartar?

can anyone enlighten me?

[Jugglering]

I would think that cake flour is *self raising* flour.....

Cream of tartar is an easily purchased ingredient in the UK - usually added to scones and other non yeasted foodstuffs. I use cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda to make scones rise up (a teaspoon of each for each 8 oz of flour).

[feistycurves]

cool, thanks

[cfab]

Cake flour is a flour with less gluten made especially for cakes, it is milled from soft wheat. It produces a more tender cake with a finer texture than AP flour. If you can't find it, you can substitute 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons AP flour. Cake flour is not self rising unless is says on the box.

[Jugglering]

I didn't know that, cfab - thanks for the info... but what is AP flour ?

[Nik315]

AP flour is all purpose flour or plain flour as we know it

[Jugglering]

Thanks Nik !