{"id":153,"date":"2007-03-01T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-03-01T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T05:30:00","slug":"baking-during-the-remodel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Baking During the Remodel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/406309123\/in\/set-72157594512704411\/\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/181\/406309123_e15dbc8b3a_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>I managed to bake some bread yesterday, despite the remodeling going on.  It wasn&#8217;t a matter of having run out of bread (&#8216;though we had), but a matter of seeing the neglected sourdough starter sitting in the fridge, going darker and darker, and of knowing that it would die in another couple of weeks if I didn&#8217;t do something with it.  So, I pulled it out and let it roam free for a while (about 9 hours), and then turned it into some lovely olive bread.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>I didn&#8217;t take the time to steam any whole grains to put in this (barley or oat would be choice), but it&#8217;s not missing it much.  I took my basic sourdough starter, gave it 4 cups of water &#038; enough flour to bring it back to consistency.  After it&#8217;d been sitting out all day, I added some more flour &#038; then removed a portion to go back into the fridge.  To the remainder I added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Cups Oat Bran<\/li>\n<li>2 Cups Golden Flax Seeds<\/li>\n<li>1 Cup Merlot<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 Cup Potato Flour<\/li>\n<li>1 Large Onion, chopped<\/li>\n<li>3 Tbsp yeast<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbsp Yellow Mustard Seeds<\/li>\n<li>3 Tbsp Brown Mustard Seeds<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbsp Sage<\/li>\n<li>1.25 Tbsp Salt<\/li>\n<li>8 Sprigs Fresh Rosemary, chopped<\/li>\n<li>16 Oz. &#8220;Spicy Pimento Stuffed&#8221; Olives<\/li>\n<li>1 Cup Sun-Dried Tomatoes (well, not really: they&#8217;re from our garden; we dried them in a dehydrator)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From there, it was a matter of kneading, forming, rising, and sliding onto baking stone in a 500 Degree F. oven which had preheated for a good 25 minutes.  Oh &#8211; and sprinkling some French sea-salt on top before they went in.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Note the granite tile?  Grout&#8217;s still not sealed, but that&#8217;s going to happen tomorrow &#8230; or, rather, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been told several times now.  He&#8217;s running out of projects to do other than the ones he says he&#8217;s going to do, so I figure he&#8217;ll get to it when he&#8217;s got nothing better to do.  Or, rather, just nothing <i>else<\/i> to do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to bake some bread yesterday, despite the remodeling going on. It wasn&#8217;t a matter of having run out of bread (&#8216;though we had), but a matter of seeing the neglected sourdough starter sitting in the fridge, going darker and darker, and of knowing that it would die in another couple of weeks if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-food","category-remodel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}