Apartment Therapy Tagged: flour

Tips: Bay Leaves in the Pantry

Why is there a bay leaf in our flour canister?...

Kitchen Storage: The Best Place to Keep Flour

We were at a friend's house over the weekend and saw something unexpected in her fridge: a bag of flour. When we asked, she insisted that this was the best place to store flour - not the pantry. Curio...

Baker's Tricks: How to Avoid Adding Too Much Flour While Kneading

Bread bakers are a calm, serene, zen-like bunch. (Right?!) But nothing gets us more paranoid than the fear of adding too much flour: too little and we have bubble-gum dough sticking to everything, to...

Good Product: Wondra Flour

Many people already use easily-dissolving Wondra Instant Flour for lump-free gravies and sauces. This wheat flour has been pre-cooked and then dried (much like instant rice), so it dissolves without s...

Good Cure Question: What Are Processed Foods?

Last Thursday I gave a controversial assignment as part of Week Two of The Kitchn Cure: I asked you to pitch your processed foods. And the questions started rolling in about what, exactly, processe...

Measuring: Dip and Sweep

Ever wondered why a cake recipe doesn't come out the same every time? It could be how you're measuring. Pastry chefs and recipe developers typically weigh ingredients to get an accurate measurement...

Pantry Basics: Five Essential Ingredients for Baking

Like pans and prep tools there is a dizzying array of baking ingredients available. Even a small grocery store will offer at least five kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar and lots of other things t...

Questions for John Baricelli: Why Are Wet and Dry Ingredients Mixed Separately?

It's Baking Week here at The Kitchn, and John Baricelli of the new PBS television show Everyday Baking asked us for your baking questions. We are also taking questions for Lisa Yockelson, who will an...

Questions for John Baricelli: Self-Rising Flour Substitute

It's Baking Week here at The Kitchn, and John Baricelli of the new PBS television show Everyday Baking asked us for your baking questions. Remember we are also taking questions for Lisa Yockelson, ...

Survey: Do You Sift Your Flour?

How many times have you seen these instructions in a recipe: Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt... Quite a lot, right? How many times do you follow it? We're curious about how often you sift your...

Pantry Basics: What Is Cake Flour?

What is cake flour? We often see it specified in recipes for cakes and even cookies, and we were wondering what the difference is between cake flour and regular all-purpose flour. So off we went to ...

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