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| The finished cheesy loaves |
As mentioned last week, during my cooking/baking extravaganza, I made chili and cornbread and this lovely cheese bread. I knew from the start that I would love this bread, seeing as I love pretty much anything with cheese and I like to add cheese to pretty much everything. This is why it will be important for me to maintain the habit of exercising vigorously as I am just not the dieting type. Who trusts a skinny chef right? Bread is honestly something that I don't think I could live without, this cheese bread included.
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When I was flipping through The Tassajara Bread Book (TBB) deciding what I wanted to bake, I was a little startled to come across this recipe. I have this feeling when it comes to baking from the TBB, that everything is healthy and wholesome, so it was somewhat shocking to see a recipe that included 3 cups of cheese, 2 eggs and 1/2 cup of melted butter. But, if you are using this bread to make a sandwich and skip the cheese and mayonnaise, (because there is cheese and butter in the bread itself), you have probably balanced things out.
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What I am learning more and more as I get older (and I have been feeling a little bit older lately) is not some new nugget of information that I have never heard before, but something that I have heard from almost everyone I know of a certain age; "everything in moderation". So I guess I will skip adding cheese to a sandwich on a cheesy loaf, or better yet, eat the cheese and walk an extra mile to compensate.
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| The bubbling yeast doing it's magic |
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| Adding the cheddar |
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| Rolling the dough to fit the bread pan |
#14 Cheese Bread
From the Tassajara Bread Book
3 cups lukewarm water
2 packages dry yeast
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup dry milk
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups unbleached flour and 2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup melted butter
3 cups grated Cheddar (or other strong favored cheese)
3-5 cups whole wheat flour as required to form the dough and knead it
Proceed with directions for recipe #1, stirring in the beaten eggs after the dry milk, and folding in the grated cheese after the salt and butter.
