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Jim Lahue[_2_] Jim Lahue[_2_] is offline
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Default Malt in bread

On 10/19/2011 4:19 PM, injipoint wrote:
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> I've been looking at a website called the Artisan dot net - all bread
> and pasta recipes. Several of the recipes call for Malt. Only a little
> i.e. 1/4 teaspoon.
>
> I've looked for this in baking sections at Safeway and Giant.
>
> Can someone tell me what it is and if I'm looking in the
> correct place. Or is it a specialty item only found in Italian
> food shops? Or is it no more than the malt you put in milkshakes?
>
> tia.


There are a couple of different types of malt powder. I assume that
what they want is something like this:

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/...t-powder-16-oz


Jim Lahue