Roasted Garlic and Dry Jack Bread

This bread is the specialty of handcrafted bread baker Craig Ponsford at his bakery, Artisan Bakers, in Sonoma, California. Craig’s loaf is a beautiful round starter bread baked in the wood-fire tradition, but the combination of flavors stand on their own even in the bread machine. Craig uses Bear Flag Dry Jack cheese, a specialty of northern California’s Vella Company, which has the factory of its seventy-year old family business across the town square from Craig’s bakery. Dry jack, a Cali