PIMENTO BREAD RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter an 8x4-inch loaf pan.Combine first 4 ingredients in mixing bowl; whisk until combined. Combine buttermilk, mayonnaise, egg and onion in large glass measuring cup with pour spout; whisk together until combined. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Add melted butter and stir well.Fold 1 1/4 cups of the cheddar cheese and pimento peppers into mixture using large rubber spatula.Bake for 35-45 minutes, or until toothpick tester comes out clean. Sprinkle top of hot bread loaf with remaining 1/4 cup cheddar cheese. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, or until cheese on top of loaf is melted, then transfer to wire cooling rack. Serve slices of bread warm with butter.

Steps:

• Grate cheese and add drained pimentos. Mix throughly.
• Scald 1 cup milk in top of double boiler.
• Make paste of remaining milk and 3 tablespoons flour and add to scalded milk
• Add sugar and salt and cook until mixture begins to thicken (about 10 minutes)
• Add butter and 1/2 cup of cheese mixture and stir until melted
• Remove from heat and cool to 80 degrees
• Dissolve yeast according to package directions (compressed yeast in 2 tablespoons lukewarm water), add to cooked mixture.
• Work in all flour with hands and let rise in a greased bowl until double in bulk, 2 hours at 80 degrees. Dough should not feel warm, but rather slightly cool to the touch.
• Punch down and let rise unti not quite double im bulk, 45 minutes at 80 degrees
• Punch down again and let rise 15 minutes.
• Place in well greased bread pan and rise unti 1 1/2 it bulk rather than double, for 30 minutes at 80 degrees, NOT LONGER.
• Bake for 50 minutes in a 375 Degree oven
• NOTE: Special care must be taken not to allow bread to rise in pan too long because it falls if it becomes too light. If cheese mixture measures more than 1/2 cup, use extra for something else, i.e. topping on baked potatoes is always in good taste