What does it mean in a recipe when it asks you to "dredge the fruit with nuts and flour"?!
You specifically do NOT want to use extra flour to dredge your fruit and nuts. If your recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, measure it out, then take a small part of it (2 tablespoons or so) for dredging the fruit. Put that into a ziplock or other small plastic bag along with the fruit and nuts. Close the bag tightly so no flour can escape. Shake and turn well to coat the nuts & fruit thoroughly, using your fingers to separate any sticky fruit pieces so that they are all individually coated.
Use the larger portion of the flour exactly as your recipe specifies. At the last minute, turn the entire contents of the fruit/nut bag out into your bowl (including any extra flour) and fold it into your batter.
Happy baking!
Answers: Like others have told you, dredging the fruit and nuts means to coat it with flour. Let me add a little more helpful information for you though, as this is a technique you will commonly see used in fruitcakes and other baked goods commonly made at this time of the year. Dredging keeps the fruit and nuts from all sinking to the bottom of your baked goods, so it is important to do it correctly.
You specifically do NOT want to use extra flour to dredge your fruit and nuts. If your recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, measure it out, then take a small part of it (2 tablespoons or so) for dredging the fruit. Put that into a ziplock or other small plastic bag along with the fruit and nuts. Close the bag tightly so no flour can escape. Shake and turn well to coat the nuts & fruit thoroughly, using your fingers to separate any sticky fruit pieces so that they are all individually coated.
Use the larger portion of the flour exactly as your recipe specifies. At the last minute, turn the entire contents of the fruit/nut bag out into your bowl (including any extra flour) and fold it into your batter.
Happy baking!
to dredge is to cover so the fruit will be covered with the nuts.
Dredging is taking the fruit and coating it with flour.
Dredge means "to coat with". So, the recipe wants you to coat the fruit with nuts & flour. :)
Pete
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