{"id":5505,"date":"2013-01-14T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisanbreadinfive.com\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:52:49","slug":"ham-and-cheese-pull-apart-bread-with-gold-medal-flour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanbreadinfive.com\/2013\/01\/14\/ham-and-cheese-pull-apart-bread-with-gold-medal-flour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham and Cheese Pull-Apart Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here is a fun, easy way to pack lunch right into your loaf of bread. No, I don’t mean the typical sandwich our kids are sick to death of, I mean ham and cheese (or whatever you are in the mood for) is folded into the dough and baked as a loaf: pull-apart bread! Each slice is a sandwich. In order to get the layers to keep their shape, I made the dough with bread flour, which boosts the amount of gluten and gives the loaf a little more structure. To make it a touch healthier (I’m constantly sneaking whole grains where kids will never see them) I also used whole wheat flour. This technique would work equally well with many other doughs from our books.<\/p>\n
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As the name suggests you can just pull sections of the loaf apart, but I sliced into this one to show you how the ham and cheese ends up woven through the bread.<\/p>\n
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The dough I used is the European Peasant Bread recipe (page 46)\u00a0Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day<\/a>, but I substituted the bread flour for the all-purpose in equal parts. (see Jeff’s post on using bread flour in other recipes<\/a>).<\/p>\n 8 to 12 slices ham<\/p>\n 8 to 12 slices of your favorite cheese<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the dough has been chilled, pull out a 1 1\/2 pound piece. If you want a bigger loaf you can increase this to 2 pounds of dough.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Roll the dough out to a 1\/4-inch-thick rectangle and cut it with a Pizza Wheel <\/a>into eight equal pieces (If you used 2 pounds of dough, then cut 12 pieces).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stretch each piece to about 1\/8-inch-thick rectangle and cover with ham and cheese. I used one slice of each. Fold the dough in half over the filling. Stack the pieces together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n