Classic American Garlic Bread

Name: Classic American Garlic Bread
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 9 - 10 , garlic cloves, unpeeled; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 2 tablespoons, grated Parmesan cheese; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1 loaf, Italian bread, halved lengthwise

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1999, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Breads

Here's how to get a smooth garlic flavor without a bitter aftertaste.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME45 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our best garlic bread recipe, we toasted a generous amount of whole garlic cloves to mellow their harshness and highlight their rich, sweet, nutty flavor. We used butter sparingly to give the bread ample richness without marring its tex...

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