Homemade Bread

Dave is on a very restrictive low salt/low sugar diet. Last week I decided to bake bread. Our search for low salt bread proved futile. I have not used my bread maker in a number of years so it took a bit of cabinet searching to even find it. My first loaf was a basic white bread made without salt and only enough sugar to activate the yeast. I am a lover of all things (non-rye) bread but this bland loaf was not worth the calories. Even the dogs thought so. While we slept, they snatched the loaf off the counter and left a good 3" uneaten - which was immediately thrown into the composter when discovered in the morning.

Last night I again tried to make bread and after an exhaustive search found a recipe that just might have flavor if the salt was left out. I put all the room temperature ingredients and perfectly warmed milk into the bread maker. Something was strange when I turned it on. The noise was there but nothing was moving about. That was when it dawned on me that I must have also thrown the mixing blade into the compost bin. It has been so long since we last had bread maker bread that I completely spaced that the blade gets cooked into the loaf and must be removed. A precursory search of the composter was hopeless. In an effort to put up salt and sugar free fruits and vegtables and because the garden is finally producing, I have been canning tomatoes, apples and green beans fast and furious recently. There was no sign of bread under several inches of processing waste.

I must not be the first to make this mistake. There are about 50 blades for my bread maker to be had on E-bay.