Flour, water, yeast and salt come together to make a wonderful, timeless loaf of bread.
However if the water decides not to show up, you don’t have three-fourths of a wonderful, timeless loaf of bread. You don’t have bread at all. It’s possible to make something completely different, especially if you recruit a new ingredient or two…but it’s silly for the flour, yeast and salt to go on acting like they’re pretty much a loaf of bread. The water is gone. It’s time to redefine the whole thing.
»» I got a lot of really interesting replies from the post yesterday. Many with the underlying sentiment of…Initially you either have the spark with a person/group or you don’t (nature), but if you have even a tiny spark it can be grown (nurture) into certain level of magical chemistry. Something to think about.
