Description: It's like a very large and juicy sausage-roll! Yum!

Submitted by: Saelwen_Silivren on 2004-06-04 08:42:14

Serves: 1 loaf

Prep Time: 1-2 hours, depending on how fast your dough rises

Difficulty: Easy

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Ingredients

1 pkg. (1 Tbs.) yeast
1/4 cup warm milk
1 tsp. sugar
Your choice of herbs or spices
2 cups flour
1/2 cup butter, cut
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs
Flour
1 cooked sausage, 6-7 inches long


Instructions

- Oil a bowl and a bread loaf pan; set aside.
- Combine yeast, milk, sugar, and 2 tsp. flour in a small bowl and let proof until foamy (about 10 min.).
- Combine the 2 cups flour and salt, and sprinkle in your choice of herbs or spices, & cut in butter with fork or pastry knife.
- Add eggs & yeast mixture and continue combining until dough forms ball.
- Knead until smooth and elastic and dough cleans itself from board.
- Transfer to the oiled bowl and let rise until doubled in size.
- Punch dough down onto lightly floured board.
- Pat out to form a rectangle slightly larger than the loaf pan.
- Slice ends from sausage, place sausage in center of dough, and fold dough over, tucking in ends to seal completely.
- Transfer to loaf pan, seam side down.
- Let rise again.
- Preheat oven to 400º F.
- Bake until golden brown and loaf sounds hollow when thumped with finger, about 35 minutes.