{"id":9257,"date":"2013-02-04T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T02:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2013-02-04T20:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T02:57:33","slug":"bread-blogging-sourdough-chevre-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9257","title":{"rendered":"Bread blogging: Sourdough Ch\u00e8vre Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

This recipe is from Brody and Apter<\/a>\"\", pages 149-152.<\/p>\n

I followed the recipe without deviations or alterations, carefully measuring out exactly 5 ounces of goat cheese (interesting that Brody and Apter call for 5 ounces, when goat cheese is usually sold in 4 ounce packages in my neck of the woods), using my on-going sourdough starter, and yes, even using the powdered goats milk.<\/p>\n

How did it turn out?<\/p>\n

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I got a pretty strong rise out of this bread. Actually, it rose so much I was afraid it was going to blow the top of the machine open and overflow the pan. Fortunately, neither happened, but it was still impressive.<\/p>\n

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The top crust would have come out okay, except for that giant hole\/crack sort of in the center. Again, I’m not sure if this is a natural artifact of bread machine bread or what.<\/p>\n

I thought I had a photo of the loaf texture, but I can’t find it now. If I do find it, I’ll add it. But the texture was fine; no big gaps or air holes or anything of that sort.<\/p>\n

And the taste? Well, I found it kind of disappointing. I was expecting another assertive, cheesy bread, and what I got tasted like…basic off-white bread. It wasn’t a bad bread, just a little bland. If I was going to make this again (and I probably will, since I still have powdered goat’s milk left over) I would use one of the flavored goat cheeses – something rolled in herbs or pepper, for example – and I’d think about throwing in a tablespoon or two of oregano or “Italian herb mix” as well. I’d give this a C+, and probably try it again with those modifications.<\/p>\n

Next bread in the machine: Simon’s Shiner Bock Cheddar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This recipe is from Brody and Apter, pages 149-152. I followed the recipe without deviations or alterations, carefully measuring out exactly 5 ounces of goat cheese (interesting that Brody and Apter call for 5 ounces, when goat cheese is usually sold in 4 ounce packages in my neck of the woods), using my on-going sourdough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9260,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}