Another flour question

I'll bet it's delicious.  Is there ever a bad shortbread?   

Or if you have a deli nearby, particularly an Italian deli - because it's an Italian product, I think!  We get ours at the deli.  Next time I'm at the big Sainsburys or the Waitrose here, I'll try & remember to have a look round for it there too.

I make a lot of pasta and always use 00 flour.  It's pretty widely available, but I normally buy it at Sainsburys.  They stock several different brands.  In a pinch, I've picked it up at my Budgens before, but it's lots more expensive there!

I made my pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies using 3 cups self-raising flour.  The recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour so I added an extra 1/2 cup just in case.  And to play it safe I added a 1/2 teaspoon baking powder.  They're now all out of the oven and cooling on the kitchen counter and they're lovely.      Fat and puffy and cake-like and yummy.  Well...  I had to test one didn't I?   

I make a lot of pasta and always use 00 flour. 

Yep. 00 is pasta flour.

I'll bet it's delicious.  Is there ever a bad shortbread?   

Darn!  I left them in the oven too long and they are all dried out.  I'll make another batch on Sunday and will probably use the extra amount of flour recommended and then let you all know again.

My Sainsburys carries 00 flour. :-) I am going to try the angel food cake recipe with that and hope for the best.  Thanks for the help.

I'm using a US recipe and following the US-UK flour conversions.  Since the amount of flour in the recipe will increase, should the amount of baking powder increase as well?

This is the formula found on a previous year's UKY thread.  Mrs. R pointed me to it.

"10 oz (280 g) plain flour = 2 1/4 cups. Substitute 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour.
9 oz (255 g) plain flour = 2 cups. Substitute 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour.
8 oz (225 g) plain flour = 1 3/4 cups. Substitute 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour.
7 oz (200 g) plain flour = 1 1/2 cups. Substitute 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour.
6 oz (170 g) plain flour = 1 1/4 cups. Substitute 1 cup all-purpose flour.
5 oz (140 g) plain flour = 1 cup + 2 Tbsp. Substitute 7/8 cup all-purpose flour."

But don't panic!!  I'm sure your shortbread will turn out yummy!   

Today I made my Nestle's Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies and this time I put in the 1/4 cup per cup extra flour.  They came out much better than they have done in the past, less flat and greasy and thicker--the way they should be!