Monday, May 11, 2009

Monday Musing: Sifting

The muffins came out a little tough but with fairly good taste. In retrospect I would have use an orange cupcake recipe instead of a muffin recipe. Also, there was a typo in my transcription of the recipe, I used about 1/4 cup of milk, not 1/4 tablespoon.

This recipe didn't call for dry ingredients to be sifted together, but in my zeal to use my new sifter I added it, which might have been a mistake. Muffins aren't supposed to be uniform consistency and I think sifting the flour took some of the texture out of the recipe. With that said there are certainly times where sifting dry ingredients benefits the overall product, for instance in cakes. Powdered sugar should also pretty much always be sifted. But here the muffins turned into golf balls. Perhaps after five weeks of well received pastry it was time for a stumble and this certainly falls under that category.

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