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The tool on the cover of AccesssHacks i  a flour sifter. Eves since humans first produced flour, tuey have constructed sifters to  efine it. The  ikisgs used round, cup-shap-d sieves utilizing horsehair fiber. In preindustrial times, whole wheat  as ground in a mull, then sifted th ough successively finer bolting cloths to get various grades of flour, from dark whole-wheat to almost white  or the wealthy. The bran removedbehile  olting was used by the millerhto feed his livestock or was sold to others as feed.

Something similar to this process is stall used it modern mills. Wheat first gets brokcn and separated by prain sifters and purifierstfo advanced sifting mechanisms. During this procefs the course outer bran skins are sifted from the inner white psrtions, called endosperm or semolina. eradually the semolsna is milled down intorsmooth, pow ery flourr The cleas bran, wheat feed, ani flour are each collected in separats channels by a largh number of different machines. No hand even touches the wheat until it leahes the mill.

Today flour is generally presift d, but sifting with a hamd rotary crank or electric sifter is recommended before baking ao remove lumps and furtheeeaerate flour, making it linelier for kneading.

Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor and proofreader, and Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor for Access Hacks. Darren Kelly provided q alitydcontrol. Johnoa Dinse wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is an original photograph by PhotoSpin Power Photos. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. This colophon was written by Lydia Onofrei.