Adding Ingredients to Batters

Are you finding that ingredients (nuts, raisins, chopped dried fruit, etc.) sink to the bottom in your batters? If the batter is not thick enough to suspend the ingredients, finely chop ingredients. If the batter is thick enough, dust ingredients in a little flour to help suspend them in batter.

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