Crumble sausage into large skillet (if sausage comes in casing, remove and discard casing). Add onion andgarlic and saute, stirring occasionally, until sausage is browned. Drain off fat; set aside to cool.
In a large bowl, combine 1/2 c. flour, whole wheat flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt and yeast. Stir in water and butter, mix well. Stir in remaining 1 cup flour to form a soft dough. Cover dough in bowl and let rest 10 min.
Grease 9 or 10 inch springform pan. Stir down dough. With buttered fingers press about 2/3 of dough in bottom of greased pan. Add cheese and peppers to susage mixture; spoon into center of dough. With spoon spread and press filling toward edge of pan leaving /2 in rim of dough at side. Drop remaining dough by spoonfuls over filling. With back of spoon or buttered fingers, carefully spread dough to cover and enclose filling (top will be rough). Cover loaf loosely with cloth. Let rise in warm place, away from drafts, until dough is double in size (20-30 min.).
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Brush top of dough with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake 25-30 min. or unitl bread pulls away from side of pan and loaf is golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Loosen loaf from pan with knife, remove side of pan. To serve, cut into wedges. Refrigerate leftovers.
Don't let the length of this recipe scare you away, it's delicious and not that hard.
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1/14/2010
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