[Sca-cooks] Post script on low-sodium bread machine recipes...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

I'd like to thank everyone who posted recipes or advice.

We haven't tried the Tuscan recipe yet, but many of the sources we  
checked, including the book we had ordered, and which has since  
arrived, seem to agree with Bear's advice to make a sponge for  
leavening the beast slowly and getting a decent, flavorful loaf  
without having it try to take over the world. We did try one recipe  
from the book that did not call for a sponge, and it did indeed try  
to escape from the bread machine, and go off looking for unattended  
small children, old ladies and stray dogs.

The sponge version is in the machine now, and I'll let the list know  
how it worked out...

Thanks again!

Adamantius




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04