{"id":353,"date":"2010-02-10T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:31:35","slug":"italian-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/02\/italian-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"italian_0002.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/italian_0002.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Diving back into the BBA Challenge, I started a <i>biga<\/i> on Monday night.&nbsp; This was the only one of the 3 pre-ferments in the BBA that I had not used yet.&nbsp; As this is an Italian style pre-ferment, I chose to make the Italian Bread.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Bread is similar to a French Bread, but with a few extra ingredients.&nbsp; This dough is enriched with oil, sugar, and dry malt extract (which I happened to have due to my trip to the home brew supply store for beer ingredients last weekend).<\/p>\n<p>As always, I kneaded by hand.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really starting to want to take a class on breadmaking.&nbsp; I feel like I&#8217;m always adding a bunch of extra flour to my dough to get to a tacky but not sticky dough.&nbsp; I also don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m always passing the &#8220;window pane&#8221; test.&nbsp; I do get a little window pane&#8230;but it also tears pretty easily as well.&nbsp; The dough was within the right temperature range when I left it to ferment.&nbsp; The other reason I&#8217;d like to take a class, is to work on my shaping.&nbsp; One of these loaves ended up pretty close to what it was supposed to look like, but the other i didn&#8217;t quite get my edge sealed so I had a little edge on one side of the loaf.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"italian_0004.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/images\/italian_0004.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"270\" width=\"360\" \/> <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diving back into the BBA Challenge, I started a biga on Monday night.&nbsp; This was the only one of the 3 pre-ferments in the BBA that I had not used yet.&nbsp; As this is an Italian style pre-ferment, I chose to make the Italian Bread. Italian Bread is similar to a French Bread, but with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/02\/italian-bread\/\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,59,129],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking","tag-bba","tag-breads","tag-italian","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\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"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=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}