{"id":1360,"date":"2005-08-17T23:58:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/bread\/"},"modified":"2005-08-17T23:58:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T21:58:29","slug":"bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/bread\/","title":{"rendered":"bread."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vizzzion.org\/images\/blog\/pommodoribrood.jpg\" title=\"Pommodori bread\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vizzzion.org\/images\/blog\/pommodoribrood-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Pommodori bread\" title=\"Pommodori bread\" align=\"right\" class=\"showonplanet\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n    I bake my own bread.<\/p>\n<p>Normal dutch bread is pretty &#8220;fluffy&#8221; and light, it&#8217;s very easy<br \/>\nto compress but I like heavier bread much more. German bread is usually much heavier, and that&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhat I&#8217;ve grown up with.<\/p>\n<p>    Solution to the problem was the breadbaking machine I got from my mother, and I&#8217;m using it<br \/>\npretty often, at least once a week. The fun thing is that this machine promotes creativity, plain<br \/>\nbread is easy to make, but it&#8217;s just as easy to put some other ingredients into it. My lasts breads<br \/>\nhave been <em>bacon bread <\/em>(baked bacon in it, perfect match with cheese), <em>fruitbread<br \/>\n<\/em>(dried fruit, such as apple, apricots, prumes, best with plain butter), <em>onion bread<br \/>\n<\/em>(with fried onions in it, tastes good with everything except sweeter stuff, cheese does very<br \/>\ngood, so does bacon). Today I visited the St. Annamolen, a clichee dutch mill where they&#8217;re actually<br \/>\nstill milling. You can buy all sorts of flours right there, and they seem specialized in providing<br \/>\nbread mixes for bread machines. (And also pet supplies, hi Rinse.) They have about 40 different<br \/>\nsorts of bread mix there, I&#8217;ve chosen the <em>&#8220;Pommodori bread&#8221;<\/em>, which gave a really good<br \/>\nresult, red bread with a strong taste of tomatoes, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>    It can be quite tricky to produce a good dough. The right amount of water is crucial, but the<br \/>\namount of salt and sugar in your ingredients can have a lot of influence, too. Salt makes the yeast<br \/>\nrise less, sugar has the opposite effect. A good measure of thumb is that the dough should be a<br \/>\nlittle sticky. Well, it&#8217;s a science, but recent results show I&#8217;m advancing (ask <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/people.fruitsalad.org\/adridg\/\">[ade]<\/a>, he serves as some sort of Guinea pig for some<br \/>\nof the experiments). The fun part was trying to get an idea of the effect of sugar, when the dough<br \/>\nfound its way outside the bread machine, cleaning the mess afterwards was less fun, though.<\/p>\n<p>    Friday, I&#8217;ll be leaving for Spain, where I&#8217;ll visit a friend near Alicante and head for <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/conference2005.kde.org\">aKademy<\/a> about one week later. I&#8217;m preparing for the trip<br \/>\nwhich is finishing my paper, do other paperwork which otherwise might need attention through the<br \/>\nnext two weeks, get notebook prepared for all kinds of conference stuff and hacking, wash clothes,<br \/>\nthink about the content of my luggage, prepare list of people which I owe a beer&#8230; In short boring<br \/>\nand stressful.<\/p>\n<p>    I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting you in M&#225;laga!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bake my own bread. Normal dutch bread is pretty &#8220;fluffy&#8221; and light, it&#8217;s very easy to compress but I like heavier bread much more. German bread is usually much heavier, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve grown up with. Solution to the problem was the breadbaking machine I got from my mother, and I&#8217;m using it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/bread\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">bread.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}