Recipes

Sausage Baked in Italian Bread
  • Ingredients
  • 1 large Italian bread
  • 2 medium onions,
  • peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 3/4 cup minced mushrooms
  • 1 sweet red pepper with seeds,
  • pith and stem removed
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1-1/2 pounds quick spaghetti
  • sausage, removed from casing (page 32)
  • 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
  • 1/8 teaspoon sage
  • 1/4 teaspoon each oregano and thyme
  • 3/4 cup grated cheddar,
  • Swiss or jack cheese
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
Directions
  1. Cut the top third of the bread off in one slice
  2. Pull out the soft center portion of the bread, leaving a 1-inch thick shell
  3. Reserve the soft bread pieces you pull out
  4. Saute the onions, mushrooms and sweet peppers in the oil
  5. Force these sauteed vegetables, the sausage meat, soft bread pieces, garlic, sage, oregano and thyme through a grinder three times
  6. Preheat oven to 350F
  7. Thoroughly mix the cheese, egg and cream into the meat mixture with a wooden spoon and stuff the bread shell with the mixture
  8. Cover the stuffed bread with the top slice and wrap well in 2 thickness' aluminum foil, set on baking sheet and bake for 1 hour
  9. Open foil and allow loaf to brown during the last 15 minutes.


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