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A Sieve of Flour

debkauz

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debkauz

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I have a friend who has a recipe from her Greatgrandmother that calls for a sieve of flour as an amount. It's been suggested that it may have been her grandmother's measurement in her own recipe. Has anyone heard of this as an actual measurement? Thanks for your help!

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Badiane

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Grandma wrote that herself, and she had a specific sieve in mind...and I'm sure that sieve is long gone.

I have dozens of recipes that call for things like 'butter the size of an egg' and 'one blue glass of flour' and my personal favorite, 'an Ike pinch of salt'. Ike being my dad, who was, apparently, enlisted to help his sisters in the house once in a while :smile:

Show us the recipe and we can probably help you figure out an amount based on liquid ingredients and whatnot.

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Scott Stratten

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