ham and cheese bread

This is one of those loaves of bread that I baked "for fun". The empty spaces that you see in the slices of bread are due to the fact that the dough continued to rise tremendously after I let the dough rest. Goodness me....

Having said this, the bread was yummylicious, despite the "holes" in the slices. This is the first time that I have used an entire slice of ham and an entire slice of cheese in the bread. In the past, I cut up the ham and cheese and added them to during the kneading cycle. In this case, I rolled out the dough before I placed slices of ham and cheese on the rolled out dough.

Our friends, WC and SC were at our home when I baked this bread. They were tickled pink to see the empty spaces in the sliced bread but they enjoyed the bread nonetheless.

WC commented that the crust of the bread had the taste of french loaf.

INGREDIENTS

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
170g water
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 tbsp castor sugar
2 tbsp dry milk
2 tbsp instant potato mix
3 cups bread flour
2 tsp instant dry yeast
slices of ham
slices of cheese

METHOD

1. Place all the ingredients (except the bread flour, yeast, ham and cheese) in the bucket of the breadmaker machine.

2. Add the bread flour, making sure that the wet ingredients are totally covered.

3. Add the yeast.

4. Place the bucket in the breadmaker machine and set to "dough" cycle. Start the cycle.

5. When the cycle has been completed, turn the dough onto a floured board. Roll out the dough into a rectangle.

6. Place slices of ham on the rolled out dough. Place slices of cheese on top of the ham.

7. Roll up the dough to form a log.

8. Place the dough in a baking tray that has been lined with baking paper.

9. Cover the baking tray with a dry cloth and leave for 1 hour.

10. Bake in an oven preheated to 185 degrees celsius for 30 minutes.