{"id":11,"date":"2005-12-30T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennifer.ostinata.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2005-12-30T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:12:00","slug":"mama-macgyver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jennifer.ostinata.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"mama macgyver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever there is need for creative thinking, I always remember Richard Dean Anderson’s character on the ’80s television show MacGyver<\/a>. That guy could make a radio antenna out of gum wrappers. (His character was probably originally inspired by the Professor on Gilligan’s Island).<\/p>\n

My recipe called for wheat bran, but I could not find it anywhere in the grocery store. When I returned home and consulted the cookbook again, Peter Reinhart (author) said in a sidebar comment that wheat bran could be extracted by running whole wheat flour through a very fine sieve. Daaang. I was fresh out of very fine sieves, and it was 11:30 p.m., so I had to improvise. In order for me to be able to make this multi-grain extraordinaire bread tomorrow, I had to soak the grains tonight!<\/p>\n

Bill had already gone to bed, so I quietly rummaged through my dresser drawer in the dark, searching for my stash of knee-hi stockings. Now, my wardrobe hasn’t required knee-hi’s for quite some time, but I eventually extracted one and returned to the kitchen. First, I slipped it over a large serving spoon. It was miraculous! After a few minutes’ work, I had separated a small mound of bran. Underneath, in the spoon, was the rest of the wheat. However, at this rate, I would be harvesting grain all night long. <\/p>\n

That is when I decided to build a tool with a larger surface area. The results can be seen below. It was a lot of work for two tablespoons of wheat bran, and wouldn’t you know it, the multi-grain extraordinaire bread went on to become the family’s favorite, so far. Daaaaaaang. <\/p>\n

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harvesting some wheat bran–eli whitney would be proud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever there is need for creative thinking, I always remember Richard Dean Anderson’s character on the ’80s television show MacGyver. That guy could make a radio antenna out of gum wrappers. (His character was probably originally inspired by the Professor on Gilligan’s Island). My recipe called for wheat bran, but I could not find it … <\/p>\n

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