To sift or not to sift?????

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To sift or not to sift?????
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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 12:50am

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Registered: 07-04-2003
Tue, 01-09-2007 - 4:33am
The short answer to your question is Yes and No. :)
I'll explain...


When I was working in a coffee house, my first morning of being the baker (I'd been there several months, just not morning baker) had me in the coffee house before everyone else and I was to make banana bread. Well, the recipe called for sifting the flour before putting it into the batter. I did that and it took forever to make the bread. When the owners arrived a bit later that morning..the got a kick out of me sifting the flour. ;) As they never did that anymore.


I learned that in days past, you needed to sift the flour to make it fluffy..these days with the way flour is processed and all that other stuff, it doesn't really need to be sifted.

But if you have a recipe where fluffiness and lightness of batter is essential, I will then still sift things.


And I do bake tons of stuff, rarely from a box. :) When I arrived in Finland, there wasn't instant, in a box stuff..those only started arriving a couple of years later.


Keep at it and you'll be baking like a pro in no time. Don't be hard on yourself and always learn from your successes and mistakes, because as long as they taste good and someone will eat them, they are a success!


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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 7:57am
It really depends on what it is for. For cookies and breads I dont sift. If it is for a cake I am most likely to sife. I always sift for Angle Food Cake. I never sift for the chcocolate pudding cake I make.
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 01-10-2007 - 1:23am

Great question, and I agree with Heather, YES

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Registered: 10-11-2004
Wed, 01-10-2007 - 1:28am
...And so we have it, do we?
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Wed, 01-10-2007 - 1:35am

You said: "I'm a rotten baker, because I'm a great cook (few people are both great cooks and bakers, you are either one or the other).

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 01-10-2007 - 3:30pm

The baker that worked for me at University of Memphis fascinated me.

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Registered: 10-30-2003
Wed, 01-10-2007 - 8:47pm

Baking is my specialty and I never ever sift.
I don't even own a sifter. The flour company
pre-sifts the flour. I have been known to put
powdered sugar in the blender to get the lumps
out.

~Susan

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Wed, 01-10-2007 - 10:59pm

Hey Susan ~

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 01-11-2007 - 5:44pm

I make my own noodles, Dani!

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Registered: 10-11-2004
Thu, 01-11-2007 - 9:06pm

Maybe thats my problem, i dont eat alot of sweets.

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