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I wouldn't omit the salt. It's not very much and it's kind vital to the process.

Vital Wheat Gluten is easier to find than you think, and it'll be in the aisle that has the flour. I think even my dinky little grocery store has it. It's surprise me that it's be hard to find in a rural area because...well what's more rural than home baked bread?

Yeah, you set the pan with the water on a shelf lower than the bread. It keeps the bread from getting all dried out and hard when you bake it. Roasting pans are good for that, you get get a disposable one and just reuse it. It's not like you'll be roasting in it.

Agave nectar is a sugar replacement. It's made from the same plant you get tequila from! It looks like thinner honey, comes in a squirt bottle.

Natural sugars and processed sugars tend to have radically different consumption amounts, and between fruits you get wildly varying amounts of sugar. 1 apple? 13g. Same amount of raspberries? 5g.
This site is your friend: http://www.nutritiondata.com/

hmmm...think i'll go get some fudge and vanilla swirl ice cream smile

For the water bath, if you're not setting what you're baking directly into the water bath as you would a cheesecake or similar, don't get too hung up on the vessel (even then, it's only important that the pan you'r paking in can fit into the water bath). A roasting pan works great, but a pyrex baking dish, or even a largish bowl will work for the purposes of bread baking.

Also, agave nectar is awesome.

Apparently, I have become the living embodiment of the 80s. Last time I went out to the club, everyone was telling me I looked like Annie Lennox. I went out tonight, and was told I look like a young Boy George. Apparently I have the whole androgyny thing down.

And the citypages linked to my youtube! I'm a reporter now! 4laugh

The death count for the fire is up to six. Four people were found in the building, on child is still missing, and the woman they rescued from the flames very early this morning died at the hospital.

http://www.startribune.com/local/89764002.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O biggrin W3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU

There's still no indication of what caused it.

I'm going to bet that it was a typo in the recipe and she wrote "3/4T" when she meant "3/4tsp," which sounds like about the right amount to me. Bread recipes usually call for between 1/2-1tsp of salt, very rarely more.

Glad the bread turned out so well otherwise!

Meanwhile, the mayor has been walking around our neighborhood talking to families. I'm at the studio right now so I'm not privy to this, but the Strib is writing about it. I actually ended up talking to some of my neighbors for once. They're not terrible people, they're just annoying. Although the big noisy dog from upstairs turned out to be really adorable.
Many people are also now using my first youtube video of the fire as it burns. There was a guy from WCCO who claimed to have been there since the start of the fire but I'm going to bet he was lying, since the reason everyone is using my video is that no one else has pre-sunrise footage, when the fire was at its absolute worst. Ironically, he's the only one who turned down my offer of the .avi file.

I'm also really sick of everyone asking me if I'm getting paid for use of my photos and videos. No, I'm not. If they offered money I would take it, but I'm not going to ask. I was posting all of this stuff anyway, why shouldn't they do as well? I talked to one reporter at the scene and emailed him five or six of my better pictures (which I'm getting credit for), and sent out the original .avi to whoever asked (and am getting credit for that as well). It just makes me a little sick that the first thing people want to know is how much money I'm getting for witnessing a fire whose death-count keeps rising.