{"id":6129,"date":"2026-04-19T18:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:03:05","slug":"on-april-19th-i-made-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"On April 19th, I made bread."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So sayeth the graffiti on the walls of Pompeii&#8217;s gladiator barracks. Although, it could be innuendo, who are we to know.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260419_093709r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had some leftovers of the floury persuation (vanilla muffin mix? Yea why not (there wasn&#8217;t a whole lot in the bottom of the packet)) and some decade-old molasses, resulting in Yet Another Experiment in Bread.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260419_170120r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t rise as much as I would have liked, but not bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self, for next time: 1\/4 cup melted butter(ish), 1\/2 cup warm milk, yeast\/sugar\/water, little bit of muffin mix, 3\/4 kilo whole wheat, some self-raising, 1\/2 cup high-test molasses, and of course a bit of salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sayeth the graffiti on the walls of Pompeii&#8217;s gladiator barracks. Although, it could be innuendo, who are we to know. I had some leftovers of the floury persuation (vanilla muffin mix? Yea why not (there wasn&#8217;t a whole lot in the bottom of the packet)) and some decade-old molasses, resulting in Yet Another Experiment in Bread. Didn&#8217;t rise as much as I would have liked, but not bad at all. Note to self, for next time: 1\/4 cup melted butter(ish), 1\/2 cup warm milk, yeast\/sugar\/water, little bit of muffin mix, 3\/4 kilo whole wheat, some self-raising, 1\/2 cup high-test&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}