Melted Ham And Cheese Loaf

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 loaf oval rye bread or 1 loaf italian bread, unsliced
• 8 slices boiled ham (thin slices)
• 8 slices swiss cheese (thin slices)

Recipe

• 1 melt butter is a small saucepan, and stir in garlic.
• 2 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 3 cut bread crosswise into 8 sections (seven cuts), not quite through to bottom crust. with a pastry brush, spread garlic butter on both sides of bread at each cut. tuck 2 slices each of ham and cheese into every other cut in bread.
• 4 wrap loaf in aluminum foil; bake for 40 minutes, or until heated through. open foil around loaf; turn oven to broil. broil loaf for 3 to 5 minutes, until cheese bubbles.
• 5 to serve, slice through unfilled cuts (serve while warm).