{"id":53,"date":"2018-04-28T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-04-28T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T10:06:44","slug":"bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/index.php\/2018\/04\/28\/bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been making bread on and off for a few years now. I don\u2019t tend to make it regularly so\u00a0I don\u2019t own a bread machine. It actually works as a great destressing exercise kneading the bread!<\/p>\n<p>For a long time I wasn\u2019t able to get the loaves to rise very well. They all looked like this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55\" src=\"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D7E80D8A-2BF8-4844-B315-677CBE537F13-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D7E80D8A-2BF8-4844-B315-677CBE537F13-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D7E80D8A-2BF8-4844-B315-677CBE537F13-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D7E80D8A-2BF8-4844-B315-677CBE537F13.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I then got bought an oval silicone bread maker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakeland.co.uk\/18403\/L\u00e9ku\u00e9-Silicone-Bread-Maker?gclid=CjwKCAjwt5DXBRAtEiwAa3vyEnBDp1iJ23lNGB42yFTMklVxtdzL4SkGKOCkkDKZgwgtb0en51cOyRoCz2sQAvD_BwE&amp;src=gfeed&amp;s_kwcid=AL!49!3!105382212869!!!g!42886483824!&amp;ef_id=WuRFGAAABErY@GYf:20180428095536:s\">like this<\/a>\u00a0and had a go with that:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6A5D2067-6E53-4ECB-A2FE-BC0D7599954D-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6A5D2067-6E53-4ECB-A2FE-BC0D7599954D-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6A5D2067-6E53-4ECB-A2FE-BC0D7599954D-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6A5D2067-6E53-4ECB-A2FE-BC0D7599954D-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the finally this year I seem to have got the mix right and my latest attempts have all been light a fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/B5FC8153-B684-41A7-9741-01743882F77F-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/B5FC8153-B684-41A7-9741-01743882F77F-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/B5FC8153-B684-41A7-9741-01743882F77F-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/daft-ideas.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/B5FC8153-B684-41A7-9741-01743882F77F-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As with many of my more traditional recipes I\u2019ll be posting here, this is from The Good Housekeeping Step by Step Cookbook. This is one of my favourites as the book starts with a picture of every recipe in the book. The book was published in 1992 so all the food is pretty traditional but I think it\u2019s great at what it does and fondly refer to it as my bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been making bread on and off for a few years now. I don\u2019t tend to make it regularly so\u00a0I don\u2019t own a bread machine. It actually works as a great destressing exercise kneading the bread! For a long time I wasn\u2019t able to get the loaves to rise very well. 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