"Bob Hurt" wrote in message =
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I guess Dicky Adams just keeps on being right - all that fancy, =
fastidious=20
attention to every nuance and detail is not necessary to make good =
bread. =20

It took several years before I could reproducibly make satisfactory
sourdough loaves. I feel that attention to detail is valuable.

I didn't have a proper measuring cup, and I had been tired and just =
wanted=20
to slam the bread together the night before. I had ignored my recipe =
and=20
any tripling methods of making sponge, and sort of went "by guess and =
by=20
golly" (unfair to say because I _have_ made enough bread to guess =
pretty=20
well).

I do not deny dumb luck, and understand well that much sloth goes
unpunished.=20

... the flat loaves satisfied the natives.

Such posts are depressing.

--
Dicky