{"id":1694,"date":"2011-05-31T21:11:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T08:01:16","slug":"starter-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Starter &#8211; Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere we&#8217;ve looked lately we&#8217;ve been harassed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Fearnley-Whittingstall\">Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall<\/a> into trying to make our own sour-dough starter. On TV, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/4food\/recipes\/chefs\/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall\/sourdough-loaf-recipe\">on the net (although we didn&#8217;t use the rhubarb version of the recipe)<\/a>, in his latest cookbook that we&#8217;ve just bought, in his bread book that we&#8217;ve just bought..<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so accusing <em>him<\/em> of harassing <em>us<\/em> might be a bit rich, but the constant bombardment about how easy and how nice sour-dough loaves will be got me to finally start a starter of our own.<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit worried that I&#8217;d not managed to pick up any natural yeasts wandering around the kitchen whisking the dough, but after bringing myself to stop staring at the mix every 5 minutes and just sitting back and letting it do its stuff overnight we had some yeasty bubbly action in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re now on day three of the starter feeding regime. Another week or so and hopefully we&#8217;ll have a starter ready to make bread with.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere we&#8217;ve looked lately we&#8217;ve been harassed by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall into trying to make our own sour-dough starter. On TV, on the net (although we didn&#8217;t use the rhubarb version of the recipe), in his latest cookbook that we&#8217;ve just bought, in his bread book that we&#8217;ve just bought.. Ok, so accusing him of harassing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}