{"id":14871,"date":"2020-05-11T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2020\/05\/11\/freedom-bread\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:59","slug":"freedom-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2020\/05\/11\/freedom-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I can make bread!<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After years of producing barely edible, moisture-stealing dough-bricks, I have &#8212; like so many others during this pandemic &#8212; learned to bake sourdough bread.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2200\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1745\/img_4182.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Every loaf is now turning out fluffy and golden, and sourdough bread has a world of extra flavour and texture that makes it feel so much more of a <em>food<\/em> than regular bread.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even difficult. The real trick, for me, was using a Dutch oven (basically a big pot you can put in the oven). I got a cast-iron one for fifty bucks. Something about the way it traps the heat and the moisture makes the dough rise, get that lovely colour, and not burn.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But what about the sourdough? Or even yeast, which is hard to find in stores right now.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>People talk as if you have to get a batch of &#8220;starter&#8221; culture from ancient Rome, but you can actually make a starter just by leaving a flour and water exposed for a couple of days, which lets it pull in some of the yeast that&#8217;s constantly floating in the air around us. (Yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/how-to-make-your-own-sourdough-starter-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-47337\" target=\"_blank\">Sourdough from Scratch instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can make bread! After years of producing barely edible, moisture-stealing dough-bricks, I have &#8212; like so many others during this pandemic &#8212; learned to bake sourdough bread. Every loaf is now turning out fluffy and golden, and sourdough bread has a world of extra flavour and texture that makes it feel so much more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}