Over at Baked Sunday Mornings, we put together our baking schedule far in advance – and working our way through Baked Occasions, our projects line up with different occasions and holidays. This week, we made a cheesy beer bread for Bastille Day.

With all of the ugliness in the world right now, it’s comforting to lose myself in a baking project. Everyone eats – even people who are hateful or violent. My wish is that a simple offering of bread or cake or pie could make it all better.

So. Here’s some bread. It has cheese – Comté and Lambchopper sheep’s milk gouda. There’s beer, too – I used a Deschutes Mirror Pond pale ale. The bread is delicious. Toast it, slather it with butter, think peaceful thoughts.

For the recipe and to see how the other Baked Sunday Mornings bakers fared, head over to Baked Sunday Mornings.

• Cheesy Bastille Day Beer Bread (Baked Occasions, p. 144)