Still, it was hard giving the recipe for bread over the phone. Bread baking is an art. It is a meditation or prayer when done correctly. Bread is listening to one's own voice. Bread is commitment - to oneself, to time, to a day at home, to the will of the universe.
Bread is creative experiment with a tablespoon of salt.
Remember, it is a living thing. I hung up and looked at the cookbook I had pulled out. The copyright said 1970. The cover and the pages have been coated in a paste of flour and yeast. There are oil spots and molasses stains.