Thank goodness for this blog! I made this recipe two times with the same unacceptable result. I was working just with the printed recipe and I used all the ingredients exactly as posted except not organic flour. Each time I had very dense, dry, hardly risen loaves. But the first rise on both attempts was superb - happened quickly and went to near triple bulk. I was NOT to be outdone by this really wonderful recipe whose ingredients I always have on hand so I knew it could become my favorite. So I looked up the recipe again and went to the blog (do you know that if you type Sharing Bread in the blog search, this is not the first recipe that comes up?) Reviewed the steps and read the comments....all of them (whew). Wet dough? Sticky dough? I had just found my problem. Set a starter to brew last night at 10 p.m. and started working with it today at noon. Making sure that I added all the water, and then a bit. Currently there are two beautifully high loaves baking in my oven. Amen. Thank you for a Keeper Recipe - just took me a while to get here! And Casey, thanks for persevering. Glad the bread's working out for you today. yes, search on our blog platform, WordPress, is just awful... I'm really sorry about that. Unless/untill we move to a new platform, we just have to put u p with it. But you can always link from the recipe to the blog directly. Cheers - PJH

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