Bits O Bacon Bread

This is one of those loaves the whole family eats up, right from the bread machine. Wonderful with any soup or salad.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ts Salt
• 1 1/2 ts Yeast, active dry
• 1 1/2 ts Yeast, fast rise or machine
• 1 c Water
• 1/2 c Wheat bread flour
• 1/3 c Bacon, with fat
• 1/4 ts Garlic powder
• 2 1/2 c White bread flour
• 2 tb Butter
• 2 tb Sugar
• 3/4 ts Green pepper corns, dried and crushed
• 3/4 ts Sweet basil, dried
  

Directions:

1. Cook bacon till almost crisp. Set bacon fat aside while you crumble cooked bacon, then remix bacon & fat before measuring.
2. After loaf is partially cooled, brush with butter and sprinkle a little coarsely-ground salt on top.
3. Use regular or rapid bake cycle. 1 1/2 ts Yeast, active dry, or 1 1/2 ts Yeast, fast rise or machine.