This delicious Bacon and Cheese Bread is the perfect companion for a braai or stew and a winner on it’s own!

Ingredients:

10 g instant yeast

15 g honey

300 ml luke warm water

500 g flour

15 g salt

2 eggs

200 g cheese (mixture of Parmesan, blue, Fontana etc.)

5 slices of bacon chopped

Lots of basil leaves, chopped

Method:

Sift the flour and salt together.

Mix the honey and water.

Add the yeast to the flour and add the water to make a moist dough.

Add the cheese, eggs, bacon and basil leaves and knead well. Leave to prove until double in size.

Knock back and shape into a loaf bread. Let prove again.

Glaze with egg-wash and bake at 180 °C for about 40 minutes.