We used to buy a sourdough bread that had Jalapeno and Cheese in it that we really liked.  When I saw in bread books formulas for Bacon and Cheese I thought why not Jalaneno, Bacon , and Cheese?  I was right on track with that question as the bread really does taste great.  Here is a picture of the finished bread.

Here is what I did to make the bread.

I made my first preferment by mixing the following together.  I let this ferment overnight.

The next build uses all of the first build with more flour and water as follows.  This ferments the next day while I'm at work.

The final dough is made up with the following.

*The flour I used in this bread is a mixture of the following.

The rye and the whole wheat are fresh ground.

I mixed the preferment, water and the flours into a shaggy mass and let it sit for an hour.  While the dough is sitting I fried the bacon, chopped up the jalapenos, and cubed the cheese.  When the hour was up I added the salt and mixed until the gluten was forming.  Then I added the jalapenos, bacon and cheese as I finished up mixing the dough.  The dough was then turned out into a bowl to ferment for four hours.  I did two stretches of the dough during the first two hours.  When the dough had fully risen I put my cast iron roasting pan into the oven and preheated it to 460°F.  When the oven was up to temperature I scraped the dough into the roasting oven and cooked the bread for 47 minutes with the lid on and 13 minutes with the lid off.  The bread was cooled over night and cut the next day at work for our pot luck.  Here is the crumb shot.

This bread was very good.  The jalapenos were not to hot for anyone but if I was making it for myself I would up the percentage of them to 12%.  We are in the busy season at work and I haven't had time to make any more bread but my co-workers keep asking for more of this bread.  There is also a person at work who used to be a chef at one of the finest restaurants in town and he said the bread was really good.  What more can I say?  The bread was a real winner for me.