{"id":618,"date":"2014-01-12T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T11:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2014-01-12T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T11:17:40","slug":"a-starter-for-the-rice-and-raisin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/a-starter-for-the-rice-and-raisin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starter for the Rice and Raisin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-619\" alt=\"500D_2057\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/500D_2057.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/500D_2057.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/500D_2057-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a quick update on the rice and raisin.\u00a0 I followed the recipe and realised it wanted a starter.\u00a0 A starter?\u00a0 A quick flick through the book said I should have set this up the day before too.\u00a0 Rather than exhibit patience, I knocked one up with yeast, nutrient and sugar, waited until it was frothing, then bunged it in with some warm water.<\/p>\n<p>I mucked up again, because I had assumed that I could just top up to 1 gallon.\u00a0 But as I sloshed in the water I realised I was already pretty much there because of the displacement from the rice and raisins.\u00a0 &lt;sigh&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>So I judged it by eye and measured the specific gravity, which was an OG of 1090.\u00a0 That looked about right so I didn&#8217;t fiddle any more and just left it to ferment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on the rice and raisin.\u00a0 I followed the recipe and realised it wanted a starter.\u00a0 A starter?\u00a0 A quick flick through the book said I should have set this up the day before too.\u00a0 Rather than exhibit patience, I knocked one up with yeast, nutrient and sugar, waited until it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/a-starter-for-the-rice-and-raisin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Starter for the Rice and Raisin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-rice-and-raisin-2014-01"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}