Maple-Pecan Bread

You won’t find much in the way of flavoured breads here, fashionable though they are. I don’t go in for them. Bread, like a pasta, is best at conveying other flavours, not jumping about in a ra-ra skirt showing off its own. But this is an exception: it has nuts and syrup in, but the overall effect is muted. And it stays true to its proper calling: that’s to say, this is a bread that comes into its own with cheese.