Even if a recipe doesn't state that sifting dry goods is needed, Williams says she always does it. "I don't think it hurts—it lightens the load," she says, meaning that the result will be a more cloud ...

Should You Sift Flour for Cookies? Fortunately, our Test Kitchen says you can skip the extra step of sifting flour when making cookies. Thanks to advances in the commercial production of flour, most ...

I’ll admit it: Every time a recipe demands that I sift an ingredient like all-purpose flour, I raise my eyebrows. Do I really have to break out an extra tool that’s notoriously tricky to clean? The ...

Q. When a recipe calls for a cup of sifted flour, do you sift before measuring or measure after sifting? A. It depends on the recipe writer, and how well-versed he or she is in recipe writing style.

Should you skip the sifting step just because you don't have a certain gadget? You won't need to ask once you know how to ...

Question: When a recipe calls for sifting flour, do you measure and then sift or measure after sifting? When the recipe asks you to add other ingredients to the flour before sifting and you measure ...

Angel food cake is an awfully lofty name for a dessert, isn't it? Far be it from us to turn our noses up at sweet, crumbly sponge cake, but whoever thought to compare it to divine succor was probably ...