{"id":182480,"date":"2015-09-04T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/04\/doing-the-cranky-baker-bit-again\/"},"modified":"2015-09-04T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T03:52:00","slug":"doing-the-cranky-baker-bit-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/04\/doing-the-cranky-baker-bit-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the Cranky Baker Bit Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing pre-cook for the SCA cooking competition <a href=\"http:\/\/brighthills.atlantia.sca.org\/?page_id=896\">Trial By Fire<\/a>, so once again, I am dealing with the vicissitudes of stiff and uncooperative dough.<\/p>\n<p>This time, I am doing both white and wheat, and I&#8217;m cranky and tired.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the competition are that cooking must be done at the competition, but long prep, like a 12 hour proof, or 4 days of marinating gravlax, or of curdling and draining Neufch\u00e2tel\/cream cheese can be done ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, my French pralines (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverbenelux.com\/?features=belgian-pralines-a-sweet-but-not-so-short-history\">c. 1636<\/a>) will be done entirely at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The pralines came from the fact that I had much liquid left over from the cheese making, or, as the saying goes, where there is a will, there is a whey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing pre-cook for the SCA cooking competition Trial By Fire, so once again, I am dealing with the vicissitudes of stiff and uncooperative dough. This time, I am doing both white and wheat, and I&#8217;m cranky and tired. The rules of the competition are that cooking must be done at the competition, but long prep, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,1011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}