A bread machine cannot produce the shapes associated with rustic, country hearth, or “artisan” bread. These loaves are shaped as round boules or oval batards (or torpedos), and baked on a deck, without a pan. A bread machine bakes a loaf in a pan. Artisan loaves tend to have firm or even crisp/crunchy crusts. There …
I bought a Panasonic SD-YD250 bread machine in 2016. After some setbacks put it aside. I came back to it and spent time troubleshooting the problem, which was the right amount of yeast for bread in this machine. Reviews at Everyday Sandwich and Make Bread at Home describe and illustrate this machine. Like other Panasonic …
The idea of a low sodium diet is to consume less salt. There are many sources of information. Sources may promote a fad or a personal theory. Buyer beware. These resources are scientific and fact based: The Low Sodium Program and other resources at Please Don’t Pass the Salt What Can I Eat at Hacking …
Flour is the product of grinding and milling cereal (grain). The main point of harvesting grain is to preserve the starches in the cereal, to be eaten and metabolized into glucose. When flour is mixed with water, starches dissolve. Yeast, added to the flour and water, consumes some of the starches – it ferments, creating …
Dietary and culinary theories abounded – and still persist, that salt is adds flavour and should be used in cooking nutritious and tasty food. Salt has been added to food as necessary preservative e.g. ham, sausage, olives, cheese, soy and other sauces. It has become a normal practice to put some salt into any dish, …
For quick reference in baking and bread machine baking, I read a refererence in a recipe as table salt, conventionally ground: Salt (sodium chloride) is a chemical agent used to cook or process food. Saltiness is regarded as one of 5 main tastes. (Scientists have not, as of 2018, identified a distinctive taste receptor for …
I had a stroke in January. I was unconscious for a few days, hospitalized for a couple of weeks and off work for a few months. I was hypertensive. I thought I had been cooking healthy i.e. not using more salt than a recipe required etc. My blood pressure dropped with medication during my recovery. …