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Blue Cheese Bread
Contributed by: Melinda
What you need
- 4 Tbl yeast
- 1 1/2 cups 90 degree water
- 2 Tbl sugar
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
- 1 cup scalded milk
- 2 Tbl sugar
- 1 Tbl salt
- 3 Tbl butter
- 2 Tbl dried onions
- 1 or 2 eggs
- 1 tsp Worcestershire
- 5 - 6 cups flour
- 2 oz crumbled blue cheese
- 1 Tbl chopped chives
- 1 cup flour
How to make it
- Dissolve yeast in 90° water
- Stir in 2 T sugar and 1 1/2 cups flour until smooth
- Let sit about 20 minutes until it bubbles
- Scald milk and pour over 2 T sugar, salt, butter and dried onions
- When the milk mixture becomes lukewarm, add it to the sponge (yeast mixture)
- Add 1 or 2 eggs and Worcestershire
- Stir in 5 - 6 cups flour, blue cheese and chives
- Empty dough to a bed of 1 cup flour and knead until smooth
- Put in greased bowl and invert to oil top
- Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour
- When risen, punch and form into 3 loaves (either in loaf pans or make 3 rounds and place on flat pans)
- Let rise for 45 minutes covered
- 10 minutes before putting in oven, score tops
- Brush with 1 egg beaten with 1 Tbl water
- Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes
I always cut this in half and make one large round loaf. It is absolutely delicious. Yes...you really do use that much yeast. This is a
slightly sticky
dough.
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