Classic American Garlic Bread

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

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

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 45 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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