@NannyB : Sifter for flour used when baking.

A kitchen tool that breaks up flour clumps and aerates it.

@NannyB :
Yep, it's a sifter for flour.

@NannyB: oh, I still have one, however, I have to confess that I don't remember the last time I used it.

I tossed mine as a 'unitasker' (yeah Alton Brown) and just use my sieve these days. Which I've probably done twice in the last 2 years, haven't done much baking lately.

@NannyB :
How does sifting flour change the texture of the recipe ?

@Magnolia832: It's supposed help the texture and make whatever you're mixing easy to mix. For me it take out the lumps out of the flour if there are any.

@NannyB Us "slightly" older cooks were taught that without sifting the flour your baking would never be as good as it needed to be.. I was taught how to
bake and always used a sifter to do so... Nowadays no need to do so !!!! but these are
prized in antique shops !!!

@NannyB: Istill have an old sifter, and a new one! 😊

@Jellybean: Yes the old has so much memories attached to it. And the new has new beginnings. Thank you my friend for the tips.

The sifter adds air to the flour, to make fluffier baked goods. Or so 'they' told housewives. I had an old Six Roses cookbook of my mom's, I couldn't believe how obnoxiously they talked down to the readers.

This is a flour shifter. You put flour or corn meal and shift it I remember my mom had one