any suggestions for fillings and flavours to add to homemade bread before baking?

Question

i make a lot of bread,but i would like to add some interesting fillings or flavours to bake into the bread,any ideas? thanks

Answer 1

Apricot-Orange Sweet Bread

Ingredients
About 1/2 cup (1/4 lb.) butter or margarine
About 2/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon hulled cardamom seed, crushed
1 tablespoon finely shredded orange peel
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
About 1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup diced dried apricots


Preparation
1. In a bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter, 2/3 cup sugar, and cardamom with a mixer until fluffy. Add orange peel, egg, egg yolk, and sour cream. Beat to mix well.
2. Stir together soda, baking powder, 1 cup flour, and diced apricots. Add to butter mixture and stir until evenly blended.

3. Butter and flour-dust a 5- to 6-cup baking pan or paper baking mold (5 in. wide, 3 in. deep; 7 in. wide, 2 1/2 in. deep; 4 1/2- by 8 1/2 -in. loaf pan; or 8-in. square or round cake pan).

4. Scrape batter into pan and spread level. If using smaller molds, fill no more than 1/3 full. (You'll have about 1 1/2 cups batter.)

5. Sprinkle batter evenly (in one or more pans) with 1 tablespoon sugar.

6. Bake on rack slightly below center in a 350° oven until bread springs back when lightly pressed in center, and just begins to pull from pan sides, 35 to 40 minutes for the whole loaf, less for smaller portions.

7. Let cool on a rack. Serve warm or cool, inverted from pan, then turned top side up.

Yield
Makes a 4 1/2-by 8 1/2-inch loaf; 6 to 8 servings

Answer 2

On top, arrange some;
1) fried strips of bacon
2) Fried onions and tomato
3) Fried green peppers cut in to strips
4) Nuts
5) fried mushrooms

FIRM THE TOPPING IN BY FINGERING THEM SOME.
Then bake....
Lovely for a smorgas board

Answer 3

black over ripe Bannanas, just mash them up and mix with bread dough.

Answer 4

I do as well. I have a recipe blog with many recipes, check it out.

http://themiddleeasterncook.blogspot.com/

Answer 5

rosemary parmesan cheese- to die for.