Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Sifting: Every Baker's Nightmare


When flour sits in a bag, it becomes condensed and can form clumps. When baking, you need to sift your flour to make it light and clump-free once again. After sifting, you end up with more flour than you started with, and every experienced baker knows how annoying it is to scoop the extra back up and put it back in the bag. Rather than sift every time, we wanted to find out just how much flour is leftover after sifting, so that we can just subtract that from our unsifted flour.
  • We measured out 1c of unsifted all purpose flour, sifted it and found that we now had 1c and 2 tbs of flour. How much unsifted flour will we need to measure in the future?

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