I’m making a Cranberry-Orange quickbread and it’s been in the oven for 15 minutes now. Just realized I forgot to add the 1/4 teaspoon of salt. :smack: Is the salt essential?
Will the bread turn out at least okay, if not delicious?
It should be fine. It may rise a little more than expected, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Thanks. That puts my mind at ease.
Salt is important in yeast breads because it controls the growth of the yeast. In quickbreads, which rely on baking soda and baking powder for leavening, salt is there mainly for flavor.
Are you going to serve it buttered? Maybe a sprinkle of flaky salt on the butter?
I make no-knead bread quite often, and forgot the salt once. It tasted like sadness.
Well, it’s finished now and it did rise more than usual. Tastes pretty good too. But next time I’ll remember the salt.
I’ve made bread many, many times, and I’ve one or twice forgotten the salt. My experience was as yours. It went straight into the garbage. Looked beautiful, tasted like nothing. Adding the salt after the fact did not help. Looks like the OP was fine with it, but it didn’t work out in my cases.
Salt is important to the flavor of most breads, but I think this was a sweet bread, in which case the salt wouldn’t be as important.