Recipe - Buttermilk Cheese And Bacon Bread

1 cup Buttermilk
2 tablespoon Butter
2 Eggs
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 tablespoon Sugar
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
3 cup Bread flour
2 One half teaspoon Yeast (1 pkg Red Star)
Add at Mix Bread beep:
2/3 cup Bacon bits (real bacon,
cooked then chopped, not
canned or artificial)
2/3 cup Shredded cheese

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 One half 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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