{"id":737,"date":"2009-07-18T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=737"},"modified":"2009-07-18T22:41:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T05:41:54","slug":"brown-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Brown Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We make bread with a bread machine, and if I am careful, the bread turns out velvety and delicious.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it tastes so much better than &#8220;shop&#8221; bread, we eat it nearly exclusively.\u00c2\u00a0 Bread is chemistry, if not alchemy: I think it&#8217;s important to measure the ingredients exactly, especially the yeast; and to use bread flour, not the all-purpose kind.\u00c2\u00a0 (The label on the bag of flour should at the very least <em>mention<\/em> bread.)\u00c2\u00a0 Getting the water-temperature right is a tricky issue that I assume you have mastered.<\/p>\n<p>Your bread machine will dictate the order and method, but here are the ingredients for our brown bread.<\/p>\n<p>Makes a 1.5 pound loaf.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup + 3 T. water (80 degrees f.)<\/li>\n<li>2 T.\u00c2\u00a0 oil<\/li>\n<li>3 T. molasses<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 t. salt<\/li>\n<li>2 T. dry milk powder (skim is OK)<\/li>\n<li>2 cups white bread flour<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/4 cups whole-wheat bread flour<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 t. active dry yeast*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*We use the granulated kind that comes in a jar.\u00c2\u00a0 I prefer a brand that at least <em>mentions<\/em> bread machines on the label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We make bread with a bread machine, and if I am careful, the bread turns out velvety and delicious.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it tastes so much better than &#8220;shop&#8221; bread, we eat it nearly exclusively.\u00c2\u00a0 Bread is chemistry, if not alchemy: I think it&#8217;s important to measure the ingredients exactly, especially the yeast; and to use bread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}