Manly Man Bread

Ingredients:

1½ tsp yeast

1 cup white flour.

1 cup whole wheat flour.

2 TBSP gluten

1 TBSP buttermilk powder

¼ cup milk powder

¼ cup oatmeal, steel cut

3 TBSP butter, warm

¼ cup flax seed meal

¾ cup granola

¼ pound savory sausage, fried.

2 TBSP honey

8 ounces oatmeal stout beer, warm (drink the rest)

1 large egg (brown, to go with the beer)

¼ cup grated cheddar cheese

⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese

Combine the first set of ingredients in the bread machine. When they’re well combined, add the stout and egg. Five minutes before the end of the second mixing, add the cheese.

Observation:  This is really quite heavy, which is to be expected with these ingredients. As a result, it didn't get all the way done all the way to the center. Next time:

• a little more yeast 
• add some dark rye flour
• cook it in two smaller loaves. 
• cheese in chunks, not shreds, 
• more sausage. Maybe some bacon.
• Add the meat very late, also.
• More seeds (especially flax seed).