Beer-Batter Cheese Bread with Smoked Gouda and Bacon

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2008

This quick bread can be on the table in less than an hour. But many loaves taste sour, or have negligible cheese flavor. We wanted an easy, lighter loaf of bread enhanced with the yeasty flavor of beer and a big hit of cheese.

SERVES Makes one 9-inch loaf

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Quick breads, like our Beer-Batter Cheese Bread, can be on the table in less than an hour. The basic recipe is simple enough, yet our first attempts produced loaves that tasted sour, like stale beer, while others had negligible cheese flavo...

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