When a recipe calls for you to ‘rub in’ the flour and butter, it’s a simple task but if you don’t know how to do it then this short guide should help.

What you need

• Mixing Bowl
• Sieve
• Flour
• Butter

In this example i’m using 100g of flour and 50g of butter (half fat to flour) which will result in a crumble mix with no flavour/sweetness, but its just for explanation purposes.

What to do

First, the actual motion of rubbing in, i make a circular motion with my thumb into the other 3 fingers like this

You don’t have to sift the flour, but i like to as it removes any lumps.

Add the butter and coat it with the flour.

Now start to pinch and rub the butter, like with the motion we learnt at the start.

As it all comes together start to rub it against your hands, it should be a pale golden/yellow colour and looks a bit like breadcrumbs.

And thats how we rub in flour and butter!