{"id":658,"date":"2010-05-16T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2010-05-16T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:07:14","slug":"bba-challenge-english-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/bba-challenge-english-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"BBA Challenge: English Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSCN1056.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-659\" title=\"DSCN1056\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSCN1056.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSCN1056.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSCN1056.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSCN1056.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSCN1056.jpg?w=2250&amp;ssl=1 2250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently I was sitting at my table when <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bread-Bakers-Apprentice-Mastering-Extraordinary\/dp\/1580082688\" target=\"_blank\">The Bread Baker&#8217;s Apprentice<\/a><\/em> stared back at me. It wondered why I had turned my back on it after such a promising start. It reminded me of the good times we had shared.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was that I am determined to go through this book in order, but was not that excited about \u00a0making English muffins. I like them fine, but they just aren&#8217;t sexy to me.<\/p>\n<p>This experience did not change my mind. But, it opened the door to focaccia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was sitting at my table when The Bread Baker&#8217;s Apprentice stared back at me. It wondered why I had turned my back on it after such a promising start. It reminded me of the good times we had shared. The answer was that I am determined to go through this book in order,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/bba-challenge-english-muffins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBA Challenge: English Muffins<\/span><\/a><\/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":[13],"tags":[28,98],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","tag-bba-challenge","tag-english-muffins","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/bagels\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":0},"title":"Bagels","author":"admin","date":"June 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Bagels are the third bread in the Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge line-up. 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