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Alan Zelt wrote:
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>> Neat post! Thanks! (Of course, I perked up even more for the
>> cookbooks!)
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>> Jean B.

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> Something that I should pass on for all those lovers of the no knead
> bread, baked in a cast iron pot, made famous a couple of years ago by
> the Times.
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> In many of the Basque cookbooks, along with the on line Basque
> repositories, there are many versions of the Basque sheepherders bread.
> Out tending to their flocks of sheep out in the wild remote parts of
> California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho, the sheepherders made bread the
> very same way. Guess there really is nothing new. It all goes around.


I gather, then, that this is a similar, no-knead bread?

Yes, as much as I want to think some recipes are new, many turn
out not to be!

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Jean B.