No-Salt White Bread
"Very simple white bread recipe for breadmaker (if you're clever you can adapt for oven!) Whole wheat flour could be substituted. This is originally a medieval Tuscan recipe, created by peasants who couldn't afford the high taxes on salt. Perfect for those of us on low-sodium diets!"
photo by Monica F.
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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12 slices
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 1⁄4 teaspoons sugar
- 1 1⁄4 teaspoons yeast
- 3 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1 egg white
directions
- Combine water and sugar, dissolve sugar.
- Add yeast to sugar water.
- Put flour, yeast mixture and olive oil into breadmaker.
- Start the breadmaker, with a plain or French loaf setting on your machine.
- When ingredients are almost completely combined (about 5 minutes in), add egg white.
- Allow breadmaker to complete baking.
Questions & Replies
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So far, so good, and just to add a little something that I found. (As I too am on a LOW-to NO sodium diet): Fleishchmann's BreadMachine Instant Yeast has NO SODIUM. Hope this helps those out there watching their blood pressure! -
Help! I am such a ditz brain! I forgot to put the paddle in the bread machine, so when I went to put the egg white in, nothing was mixing. I pulled everything out, and put the paddle in, and put all of it back in there. It did lose eight minutes of mixing time though. I just checked on it, it looks like a ball of dough. Hopefully it will be edible. What do you think? My bread machine doesn't have a function where you can start the cycle over.
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Thanks for this recipe, I also have to watch my sodium intake. Using a bread machine for the first time. What kind of yeast? What size loaf? -
Has anyone every tried a low salt recipe that is gluten free or with Bob's Red Mill 1 for 1 Baking Flour? -
Should be called no salt added since there is salt in the yeast.
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Reviews
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I am making this today for my mom who is on a strict low sodium diet. Thanks for posting!
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This was a very good and easy recipe!! Following the instructions was easy too. While the machine is mixing all the ingredients together, I do use a spatula to scrape around the sides so that it adds to the mixture. My husband must adhere to to a very low restricted sodium diet for health reasons, so I was very happy that he really likes this bread and that it was easy to make. -
Very nice result first time out. "Winged it" on converting to oven bake. Mixed ingredients by hand adding egg white last. Let rest 2 hrs covered, punched down, kneaded, then 40 minutes more. Into 375 oven for about 40-45 minutes, testing w/ toothpick. Product firm but not too dense, good grain. Next time I'll try it with some Spike non-salt seasoning added.
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This was a very nice bread, easy to make and a wonderful addition for anyone on a low sodium diet!
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No offense, but if I wanted a bread machine recipe I'd look on the box. And as other reviewers have said, yeast contains salt, and, as far as I know, it is very difficult to make bread without salt. Please edit the title to reflect that reality so that people who cannot have salt don't get hurt. Thank you!
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I'm a Librarian from Brisbane, Australia - also juggling playing mummy to a 4 year old year old son (he and hubby constantly fight over who's man of the house!) and sweet baby girl who's just turned one!
