{"id":124,"date":"2012-08-14T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=124"},"modified":"2012-08-26T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T15:22:17","slug":"one-of-my-hobbies-baking-my-own-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"One of my hobbies &#8211; baking my own bread!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I help my mom make rolls every Thanksgiving and Christmas, but other than that I don&#8217;t really have experience baking bread.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for quite a while, but time and other commitments got in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;re retired and have lots of time to do what we want, I&#8217;ve decided to start baking my own bread.\u00a0 I made a simple white loaf this morning.\u00a0 First time using the oven as well so I had to figure out how to light the pilot before putting the loaf in, and I was a bit unsure how well the temperature would match what&#8217;s on the dial etc.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a link to the recipe I used (<a href=\"http:\/\/breadbaking.about.com\/od\/yeastbreads\/r\/1loafbread.htm\">click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Once I master this, I plan to make some sourdough starter so we can have sourdough bread, and also to make other types of bread such as pumpernickel, rye, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of my first loaf of bread&#8230;I had to take the shot quickly while it was still cooling because Jeff couldn&#8217;t wait to slice some of it.\u00a0 He declared it is delicious!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125 aligncenter\" title=\"My first loaf of bread\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread-190x142.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/My-first-loaf-of-bread.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I help my mom make rolls every Thanksgiving and Christmas, but other than that I don&#8217;t really have experience baking bread.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for quite a while, but time and other commitments got in the way. Now that we&#8217;re retired and have lots of time to do what we want, I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One of my hobbies &#8211; baking my own bread!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}