Buttermilk cheese & bacon bread
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Buttermilk |
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 1 | tablespoon | Sugar |
| ¾ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 3 | cups | Bread flour |
| 2½ | teaspoon | Yeast (1 pkg Red Star) |
| Add at Mix Bread beep: | ||
| ⅔ | cup | Bacon bits (real bacon, cooked then chopped, not canned or artificial) |
| ⅔ | cup | Shredded cheese |
Directions
This recipe is a combination of Donna Gorman's Bacon/Cheese Bread and her Buttermilk Cheese Bread (cookbook III). I'd made the bacon/cheese bread and it was good, but it was a rather dense, low loaf. When I saw the buttermilk cheese bread recipe, I decided to make a few modifications and combine the two recipes ... the result is a tall, utterly delicious loaf!
I then tried it closer to her recipe and, instead of adding bacon/cheese at the mix bread cycle, I added 1 cup of shredded cheese at the beginning. This loaf almost brushed the top of my Hitachi! It was HUGE!
I don't know why these rise so well ... I did warm the buttermilk in the microwave for about ½ minute and the baking soda is unusual. I may try adding a small amount of baking soda to some other recipes and see what the result is.
Anyway ... this is now one of our favorite breads! A loaf is baking right now.
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