{"id":3079,"date":"2026-10-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:51:10","slug":"spice-of-the-month-bay-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Spice of the Month: Bay Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bay leaves<\/strong> are for more than just soup. Add a <strong>bay leaf <\/strong>as you boil potatoes or cook rice; marinade your beef, pork, or poultry with a <strong>bay leaf<\/strong> in with your other marinade ingredients. Stop by the circulation desk to pick up your sample of <strong>bay leaves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3083\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2945877941684345;width:559px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32-767x593.png 767w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32-1536x1187.png 1536w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-28-2026-at-15.40.32.png 1633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay leaves are for more than just soup. Add a bay leaf as you boil potatoes or cook rice; marinade your beef, pork, or poultry with a bay leaf in with your other marinade ingredients. Stop by the circulation desk to pick up your sample of bay leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[585,373],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-adult-programming","category-family-programming","tag-bay-leaf","tag-spice-of-the-month","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}