{"id":2473,"date":"2021-07-12T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2021-07-12T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:00:26","slug":"elderberry-flower-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/elderberry-flower-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderberry Flower Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2476\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2476\" class=\"wp-image-2476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-413x550.jpeg 413w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-1-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2475\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2475\" class=\"wp-image-2475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-413x550.jpeg 413w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-2-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2474\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2474\" class=\"wp-image-2474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-550x550.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/elderberry-flower-bread-3-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking through local woods, I was delighted to discover that Elderberries were in full bloom. It wasn&#8217;t hard to find them as their sweet smell was potent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to understand what kind of flavors infuse best with sourdough bread. This created an excellent opportunity for an experiment. I&#8217;ve plucked one cup of Elderflowers flowers and mixed them with 500g of flour. The rest was my standard sourdough recipe at about 75% hydration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baked bread really delivered a potent punch of elderberry flavor. The taste really came through, and it got that aroma that you get when you drink elderberry syrup. The main difference is that it&#8217;s a bit bitter as the bread isn&#8217;t sweetened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What I would do differently next time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would make mix the elderberry flowers into more of a dessert type of bake. That way, you&#8217;d get the sweetness and also more association with the syrup drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elderberry flowers don&#8217;t last long after they&#8217;re picked, so I would time the whole process to start mixing sooner after coming back from the forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through local woods, I was delighted to discover that Elderberries were in full bloom. It wasn&#8217;t hard to find them as their sweet smell was potent. I&#8217;m still trying to understand what kind of flavors infuse best with sourdough bread. This created an excellent opportunity for an experiment. I&#8217;ve plucked one cup of Elderflowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[945],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will-it-bread"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}