Adding salted nuts to bread recipe - question

[DianeS]

Today I made homemade sunflower-seed and honey bread. YUM! That said, I do have to add a bit of salt to each slice, because when I lowered the amount of salt in the recipe to account for the salt that was already on the sunflower seeds, I apparantly lowered it too much.

So that brings me to my question - when amending a recipe, is it just trial-and-error to figure out how much to amend it? Or are there charts that show things like how much salt is on salted nuts so you can be sure to lower the recipe correctly?

 

[Marianne]

I don't know if there's a chart. I just don't worry about it and keep everything the way it is. I always use salted butter, even if the recipe states unsalted, with no problems. But nuts are saltier, some more than others. I'd leave the sunflower seeds and recipe as they are and try it that way.

Love that bread! Can you send me some?

 

[framing fowl]

In a case like this, I would think the salt in the recipe has more to do with how the bread cooks than flavor. I wouldn't change the recipe, just put the salted nuts in.