Recipe - Baked Whole Garlic With French Bread

4 Cloves garlic; left whole
2 tablespoon Olive oil or clarified
butter
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon Black pepper
1 French bread loaf; cut or sliced up
and heated
6 ounce Cream cheese or soft cheese
(optional) or One half cup
butter; softened

Heat the oven to 350°F. Trim the tops of the garlic heads, leaving them
whole but removing about One fourth inch. Remove excess dry skins. Rub the heads
with a little of the butter or oil and put in a very small baking dish or
crock the size of the four heads. Drizzle with the rest of the oil or
butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover loosely, reduce heat to 275°F
and bake for 20 minutes. Remove cover and bake for about 1 hour and 15
minutes. Slice and heat the French bread (optional) in the last 10 minutes
of the baking garlic.

To serve: Spread French bread with soft creamy cheese (optional) or butter
and squeeze clove by clove onto the bread and spread it.

NOTES : Barely sweet and mild roasted garlic spread on French bread slices.
Each clove is squeezed out of its skin onto the bread. It can be served by
itself with the bread or with butter, cream cheese or soft cheese.
Recipe by: Earth Kitchen Cookbook by Dee Bell

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 579 by RecipeLu
recipelu@geocities.com on Jan 22, 1998