Help Finding Ingredients

Pigletlover

I'm planning on spending the weekend baking \o/ but first need to find mace and cake flour/soft wheat flour. They don't seem to be available on-line from Tesco and I don't recall seeing them before (then again I wasn't looking) so I was wondering where I might get them. I'm in Limerick so I wont be able to try any specialist stores in Dublin...

noby

Mace should be in the spice section of any half decent supermarket.
I've heard of substituting cake flour with plain flour or plain flour + cornstarch. In fact a quick google reveals this, although I've never tried it.

the beer revolu

I would have thought that soft flour is just regular plain or cream flour as opposed to strong bread flour.
No?

As said, mace shouldn't be hard to find.

Magic Monkey

Try an Asian shop in your area for both of those ingredients, they should have them. Look for mace in with the indian spices. Tesco have a range of speciality ingredients such as lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, boquet garnis, etc - the mace may be in with them too. For substitution: use nutmeg instead of the mace, for soft flour use plain/cream flour as suggested, and for cake flour what nody suggested works (cake flour has a lower gluten % than plain flour and is specially treated to absorb more moisture.) What is the recipe?

antoniosicily

mace = any asian shop
cake flour = oldsum's cream is good to make cakes