I wouldn't.

My recipe for snickerdoodles calls for baking powder plus cream of tartar....which pretty much equals baking powder.
Go for it....gas is expensive.....how bad can it be?
Linda C

LoL! Well, I did try it. They were lousy, but satisfied the sweet toothes in the house.

Thanks all!

Ack! Did I say "toothes"???

Yup - I did.

Make that "teeth"!

LoL

In my mother's MAYBERRY RFD cookbook, I noticed that several of the yeast-bread recipes called for self-rising flour. I was somewhat surprised. Were the bakers using a fail-safe technique in case the yeast was too old or new? Or maybe they just want to be known for their amazing, fluffy rolls.

chery2

Plain flour and self raising flour are not interchangeable in most recipes. Plain flour has no leavening (rising), whereas self-raising does. Of course, if the SR flour is a bit old, you might find that the leavening has 'died off', and you might be able to get away with using it.

Mind you, I've used the wrong flour my mistake more than once. If you're making biscuits (cookies) which call for plain flour, and you use SR, they might rise more than you want and be softer in texture instead of crisp - but maybe you won't mind that!

SR flour is great for things like cakes, scones, muffins, pancakes. It is far more commonly used here in Australia than in America, so I've learned.