{"id":546,"date":"2006-07-30T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T03:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2006\/07\/30\/flour-sievers-india-and-sifter-us\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:33:52","slug":"flour-sievers-india-and-sifter-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2006\/07\/30\/flour-sievers-india-and-sifter-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Flour Sievers (India) and Sifter (US)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/santhiskitchen.netfirms.com\/nfblog\/?p=78\"\">Santhi of &#8216;Me and My Kitchen&#8217; selected &#8220;Flour&#8221; to feature for August&#8217;s JFI Event.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>How can we talk about flour, without talking about flour sifters? Two important things I have learned to pay attention when cooking with flours are &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freshness of flour<br \/>\nSieving and sifting the flour  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buying freshly milled flour is not possible anymore here where I live, but sieving and sifting is; which helps to break up clumps, to remove foreign matter and also to aerate the flour. Aerated flour is a beautiful thing to work with, mixes easily with liquids and other foods without forming into lumps. At my mother&#8217;s home growing up, it was often our (the children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) duty to sieve the flour for chapatis etc. Needless to say, it was quite an enjoyable task.<\/p>\n<p>I have two sifters. The round one with several discs (to control the fineness of flour) is a traditional flour sifter from India. (My friend who recently moved back to India from US gave it to me). The second one, the traditional flour sifter people use here, I bought it from Pittsburgh flea market few years ago. Both are easy to use and my choice depends on the amount of flour I am using in a recipe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Indianingredients\/floursievers.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"Flour Sievers and Sifter\" \/><br \/>\n<center>Flour sievers (sifters) from India and from US &#8211; For this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2005\/11\/19\/indian-kitchen\/\">Indian Kitchen<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Indianingredients\/floursievers1.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"Flour Sievers in different sizes from India\" \/><!--56b02d83f7dc47c13f2d47c78a49195a--><!--0411a29fc9b508da83f8592700bc7d15--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-kitchen","category-indian-utensils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}