{"id":1374,"date":"2012-10-26T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/i-love-bread\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:36:10","slug":"i-love-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/i-love-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"I love bread …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 and I especially love crusty<\/i> bread! Imagine how happy I was when a friend of mine pointed me to a recipe<\/a> for a very easy-to-make crusty loaf. Yes, I do have a bread machine, and I use it a lot for our regular sandwich bread and a few variations. However, it doesn’t do “crusty”. I can do \u2014 and have done \u2014 dough in the machine and then baked it, and the results are good. However, this recipe sounded so easy that I decided to give it a try. Wow! “Easy” hardly begins to describe this. There’s no kneading, and it can be started a day or so ahead of time, then baked for dinner. The crumb isn’t as fine as a kneaded bread, but it’s good, and I really enjoyed having it with some homemade turkey soup just now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 and I especially love crusty bread! Imagine how happy I was when a friend of mine pointed me to a recipe for a very easy-to-make crusty loaf. Yes, I do have a bread machine, and I use it a lot for our regular sandwich bread and a few variations. However, it doesn’t do “crusty”. I can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[192],"tags":[47],"class_list":{"0":"post-1374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kitchen","8":"tag-food","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_0016.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-ma","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4907,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/21\/a-tale-of-the-most-expensive-christmas-bread\/","url_meta":{"origin":1374,"position":0},"title":"A tale of the most expensive Christmas bread…","author":"Sandy","date":"December 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year I make a special Christmas bread that my family loves. 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