SIFTING WITH EASE

When you need to sift dry ingredients you probably just dread to pull out the old hand crank sifter. It is cumbersome to use, your hand get tired and it is impossible to clean with out it rusting.

I tossed mine a long time ago and just got a small sieve that is fine ware woven into a mesh. It only holds about 1 cup of dry ingredients at a time, but it will sift them about 10x faster than a standard sifter.

Just hold the sieve over the bowl that you would like your ingredients to go into then add your dry ingredients to the sieve a cup at a time.

Pick up the sieve and gently tap it against the palm of your other hand.

The dry ingredients will just fall through the mesh leaving behind any larger lumps.

You can squash these lumps through the sieve with the back of a spoon or your fingers.

If you notice that the lumps are hard, remove them from the sieve. Make sure that you replace anything that you remove with the same amount of the like item.