{"id":336,"date":"2009-10-21T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-08-05T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T05:24:35","slug":"homemade-english-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/10\/homemade-english-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade English Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Nicole is behind this little event called the Bread Baker&#8217;s Apprentice Challenge (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/pinchmysalt.com\/the-bba-challenge\/\">BBA Challenge<\/a>).\u00a0 Basically, she picked a cookbook about bread baking and is baking through the recipes.\u00a0 When she posted this idea on Twitter, it took off, and now folks around the world are baking alongside her.<\/p>\n<p>After a few months of seeing (and tasting the Focaccia) the wonderful breads Nicole was making, I decided to pick up a copy of the book myself.\u00a0 I&#8217;m may not end up baking completely through the book, but I&#8217;m going to try to make it through most of them.<\/p>\n<p>I decided my first bread would be English Muffins partially because the recipe was pretty simple, but also because you grill them instead of actually baking them.<\/p>\n<p>Mine ended up a little denser than Nicole&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pinchmysalt.com\/2009\/08\/25\/homemade-english-muffins\/\">English Muffins<\/a> looked, and definitely denser than store bought, but they still tasted really good.\u00a0 My muffins also were a little inconsistent on the color, but I attribute that mostly to the fluctuating temperature on my gas stove\/cast iron pan.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/English_Muffins_0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For that first one, I toasted it and spread some butter and my grandpa&#8217;s homemade huckleberry jam.\u00a0 It was fantastic!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/English_Muffins_0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Nicole is behind this little event called the Bread Baker&#8217;s Apprentice Challenge (aka BBA Challenge).\u00a0 Basically, she picked a cookbook about bread baking and is baking through the recipes.\u00a0 When she posted this idea on Twitter, it took off, and now folks around the world are baking alongside her. After a few months &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/10\/homemade-english-muffins\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,59,159],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking","tag-bba","tag-breads","tag-english-muffins","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}