Cheese and Bacon Buttermilk Bread

Buttermilk makes a tasteful base to a savoury bread. With undertones of bacon, cheese and onion, this loaf is quickly prepared. It's a great bread to serve at a braai or barbecue and is bound to be a family favourite.

Ingredients:
375ml wholemeal flour
250ml cake flour
10ml baking powder
2ml bicarbonate of soda
10ml sugar
5ml salt
5ml English mustard powder
2ml cayenne pepper
50g butter
80 ml grated Parmesan cheese
5 slices streaky bacon, crispy cooked and crumbled
1 egg, lightly beaten
500ml buttermilk
10ml Worcestershire sauce
2 spring onions, chopped fine.

Method:
Preheat the oven to 160C.
Mix together the flours, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, mustard and cayenne pepper. Rub the butter into the mixture until it resembles fine bread crumbs. Fold in the cheese and the bacon, reserving a little of each to go on the top of the loaf.
Combine the egg, buttermilk and Worcestershire sauce and blend. Mix into the dry ingredients.
Pour the mixture into a buttered loaf tin, which has been lined with baking paper. Sprinkle the chopped spring onion, reserved cheese and bacon on top of the loaf.
Bake for one hour. To test for readyness, knock on the top of the loaf; it should sound hollow, or test with a metal skewer pushed into the middle of the loaf. When the loaf is cooked it should come out clean.
Cool before slicing and buttering to serve.