{"id":286,"date":"2016-11-25T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/i-bake-because-punching-people-is\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:22:54","slug":"i-bake-because-punching-people-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/i-bake-because-punching-people-is\/","title":{"rendered":"I Bake Because Punching People Is Frowned Upon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baking is my therapy.<\/p>\n

If I am stressed, I bake. \u00a0If I am angry, I bake. \u00a0If I am confused, I bake. \u00a0If I am anxious, I bake. \u00a0If I am happy, I bake. \u00a0That last one doesn’t call for therapy, but still, I bake.<\/p>\n

Usually, I bake a lot of cookies. \u00a0There is something so soothing about creaming butter and sugar and putting tray after tray in the oven. \u00a0It requires almost no thought but the repetition is calming. \u00a0However, if I am having a very bad day I bake bread. \u00a0Because ultimately there is no better way to get your frustrations out than to violently knead bread dough. \u00a0You can punch it and mash it and you can even name it if you are upset with a specific person. Then once you have gotten all your aggressive tendencies out you return to the calm and relaxing proving and shaping and baking. \u00a0Plus, your house is filled with the best smell on earth. \u00a0Is there anything like the smell of baking bread? \u00a0That alone is guaranteed to make you happy.<\/p>\n

This week I baked cinnamon rolls. \u00a0I wasn’t in any particular need of baking therapy but I do have a new cookbook full of delicious sounding recipes and I finally had time to try it out. \u00a0The cookbook is The Bread Baker’s Apprentice*<\/i> by Peter Reinhart. Based on the one recipe I have tried, I absolutely love it.<\/p>\n

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The first 100 or so pages are information about bread. \u00a0The book covers such things as types of yeast and how fermentation works, bakers formulas (which I haven’t quite gotten to grips with) and shaping loaves. \u00a0It is more technical than many cookbooks I have used but still manages to be accessible and easy to understand. \u00a0The recipes themselves are also clearly written. \u00a0Each step is easy to follow.<\/p>\n

However, the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the proof is in the cinnamon rolls. \u00a0How did they turn out? \u00a0Well, my family managed to eat half the pan within half an hour of them coming out of the oven and my son told me that they are the best thing I have ever baked. \u00a0And as I think I have made clear, I bake a lot. \u00a0I call that a success.<\/p>\n

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Now to decide what I will try next. \u00a0Maybe homemade English Muffins or the Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread. \u00a0So many choices. \u00a0So much therapy ahead of me. \u00a0So much delicious bread.<\/p>\n

*I received this book from Blogging For Books<\/a> for this review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baking is my therapy. If I am stressed, I bake. \u00a0If I am angry, I bake. \u00a0If I am confused, I bake. \u00a0If I am anxious, I bake. \u00a0If I am happy, I bake. \u00a0That last one doesn’t call for therapy, but still, I bake. Usually, I bake a lot of cookies. \u00a0There is something so soothing about creaming butter and sugar and putting tray after tray in the oven. \u00a0It requires almost no thought but the repetition is calming. \u00a0However, if I am having a very bad day I bake bread. \u00a0Because ultimately there is no better way to get your frustrations out than to violently knead bread dough. \u00a0You can punch it and mash it and you can even name it if you are upset with a specific person. Then once you have gotten all your aggressive tendencies out you return to the calm and relaxing proving and shaping and baking. \u00a0Plus, your house is filled with the best smell on earth. \u00a0Is there anything like the smell of baking bread? \u00a0That alone is guaranteed to make you happy. This week I baked cinnamon rolls. \u00a0I wasn’t in any particular need of baking therapy but I do have a new cookbook full of delicious sounding recipes and I finally had time to try it out. \u00a0The cookbook is The Bread Baker’s Apprentice* by Peter Reinhart. Based on the one recipe I have tried, I absolutely love it. The first 100 or so pages are information about bread. \u00a0The book covers such things as types of yeast and how fermentation works, bakers formulas (which I haven’t quite gotten to grips with) and shaping loaves. \u00a0It is more technical than many cookbooks I have used but still manages to be accessible and easy to understand. \u00a0The recipes themselves are also clearly written. \u00a0Each step is easy to follow. However, the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the proof is in the cinnamon rolls. \u00a0How did they turn out? \u00a0Well, my family managed to eat half the pan within half an hour of them coming out of the oven and my son told me that they are the best thing I have ever baked. \u00a0And as I think I have made clear, I bake a lot. \u00a0I call that a success. Now to decide what I will try next. \u00a0Maybe homemade English Muffins or the Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread. \u00a0So many choices. \u00a0So much therapy ahead of me. \u00a0So much delicious bread. *I received this book from Blogging For Books for this review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}