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Out of Flour

I knew it.  When I was at the store the other day, I said to myself that I'd get flour when I make my "real " grocery trip... certainly not now.  I was only picking up a few things.  So finally I got around to making my next loaf, and sure enough, I only had just over a cup of flour.  So much for efficiency.  My internal dialog of justifications is such a pain in the butt sometimes.  As Oliver Hardy would say to Stan Laurel, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."   I need bread.  I'm tired of eating potatoes and rice for my starch component.  I can't make a ham sandwich on crackers or potato slabs (I mean, I could). I have been experimenting with my bread recipe, tweaking it for lean times such as these.  Do I really need 4 cups of flour?  Can I make up for a reduction in diastatic power with something else or get by without it? Well, I had gotten some mixed sorghum-rice-millet flour a while back to cut into my bread recipes, kno