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Sift

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

verbCore term

In culinary arts & cooking, sift means: To pass a dry ingredient through a sieve to remove lumps or separate particles.

In Turkish: elemek

How it is used

Common with flour, cocoa and icing sugar; sifted describes the prepared ingredient.

Example sentences

  1. Sift the cocoa before adding it to the cake mixture.

    Passing through the mesh removes dry lumps.

  2. She sifted icing sugar over the finished tart.

    The sieve also distributes a fine surface coating.

Common collocations

  • sift flour
  • sifted cocoa
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

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