{"id":865,"date":"2009-04-10T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/04\/10\/experimenting-on-hot-cross-buns\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:08:50","slug":"experimenting-on-hot-cross-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/04\/10\/experimenting-on-hot-cross-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting on hot cross buns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laucke.com.au\">Laucke flour mills site<\/a> suggests the best place for proofing and rising dough is in an esky with some boiled water and the lid on, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying with my annual batch of hot cross buns. It will be a revelation if it works!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/l-1600-1200-209dfdae-5173-4dc8-93bd-2c5d7484a748.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/l-1600-1200-209dfdae-5173-4dc8-93bd-2c5d7484a748.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> They turned out so well &#8211; the best batch I&#8217;ve ever made, by far, and I&#8217;m sure it was because of the esky trick. The buns expanded quickly in a fluffy kind of way &#8211; they have never done that before, and have always previously taken such an age to rise. Might tempt me to try making bread again sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laucke flour mills site suggests the best place for proofing and rising dough is in an esky with some boiled water and the lid on, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying with my annual batch of hot cross buns. It will be a revelation if it works! Update: They turned out so well &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[19,20],"tags":[1020,1021,1022],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-make","tag-hot-cross-buns","tag-proofing","tag-rising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-dX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}