"blake murphy" > wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:59:58 GMT, "wff_ng_7" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>I also look for things I've never seen or used before to get ideas. If I
>>find something interesting that I can use, I'll buy it. One item in that
>>class was sour salt. I stopped at the Jewish foods section one day and
>>picked a container up to see what it was. Then I realized it was citric
>>acid. I had been getting it at the health foods store for a much higher
>>price. If I hadn't stopped to look, I wouldn't have made that discovery.
>>
>
> just out of curiosity what do you (or others) use it for? since it is
> in the kosher section, i assumed it was used in jewish cookery.

I haven't the faintest idea of what sour salt is used for in Jewish cooking,
but that's not what I use it for. I put it in homemade bread to make it more
sour and also use it to descale the boiler on my espresso machine. I know
other people use it for descaling like I do, but I'm not sure how often it
gets used in bread (in particular, rye bread).

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