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Melba's Jammin' >

>> Bread was baked for a very long time by home bakers before anyone ever>>
>> heard of bread flour, high protein flour, or any of the myriad types of
>> flour on the supermarket shelves today.
>
> Yeah, that's what I thought...and either their bread was crappy, though>
> nobody complained because it was better than going hungry...or somehow
> they made bread just as good from all-purpose flour and today's bakers>
> just take the easy way out by baking with special varieties of flour.

Bread was also made a long time before you could buy flour. What people
want from bread altered over time and is now most recently becoming "all the
kinds of bread ever made anywhere" rather than what your culture is used to.
So yeah, you can make bread from what you have and buying specialty flours
to make other kinds is not IMO taking the easy way out, but widening what
you're willing to do.