Artisan Breads Every Day - Crusty Cheese Bread

More good eating from Peter Reinhart's new bread baking book.

This bread is addictive. I couldn't just eat one piece! Something about the chewiness, the slightly sourdough flavor and, of course, cheese add up to great bread! Plus the cheese oozing out of the slashes just looks cool!

This bread is very similar to the soft cheese bread. It has some sourdough starter for flavor enhancement but includes yeast also. I omitted the onions this time since I was serving it to someone who might not appreciate onions. Two cups of flour were replaced with whole wheat flour, 2 T vital gluten added and milk increased by 1/4 cup.

A simple recipe that will appear again to our table.