Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, challah/bread loaves. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Challah is a bread that's steeped in tradition, holding a symbolic place at Jewish Sabbath meals and in the Rosh Hashanah spread. But beyond its ritual significance, challah has a certain universal. In a large bowl, sprinkle yeast over barely warm water. Add the flour one cup at a time, beating after each addition, graduating to kneading with hands as dough thickens.
Challah/bread loaves is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Challah/bread loaves is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook challah/bread loaves using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Challah/bread loaves:
- Take 5 lbs high gluten flour
- Get 1 cold + 3 hot c water
- Get 1 c sugar
- Get 1/2 c honey
- Make ready 4 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 c oil
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Make ready 3 oz yeast
Challah bread is most often braided into long six-strand braids or round braided loaves. Then the loaves are brushed with an egg wash two times which gives wonderful color to these stunning loaves. We like to eat one of the loaves with dinner when it's freshly made and save the other one to use for something else later. Challah is an egg enriched loaf that's traditionally braided and makes the most beautiful presentation.
Instructions to make Challah/bread loaves:
- Dissolve yeast in a cup of warm water (which will become your cup of cold water) with a tbsp of sugar note to self: break up yeast for quicker activation
- Add 3 cups of very hot water top the dough mixer
- Add oil, eggs, sugar, honey, salt, flour and yeast
- Mix for 3 minutes
- Oil your largest bowl sparingly and place dough in. Cover dough with a damp dishcloth and let dough rise for a 1/2 hour.
- After the dough has risen for a 1/2 hr punch it down, flip it over, cover it with the damp towel and let it rise for an additional 45 minutes.
- Make an hafrashas challah (Jewish blessing on bread) and start braiding
- Once you've braided and placed it in your tin pans let it rise yet again for 45 min (all this rising should make the bread come out nice and fluffy)
- Once 45 min are up or they have risen sufficiently brush some eggwash for a nice golden shine and sprinkle sugar on them for a sweet crunch! bake on 175-380 until a golden-dark brown for 20-30 min or longer. Keep checking on them.
- Bake on 175-180° unitl a golden–dark brown for 30-45 min or longer. Keep checking on 'em!
We like to eat one of the loaves with dinner when it's freshly made and save the other one to use for something else later. Challah is an egg enriched loaf that's traditionally braided and makes the most beautiful presentation. Similar to brioche, the bread is slightly sweet and wonderfully soft inside. Most recipes for challah make two loaves, which is way too many for one person. It's a single loaf challah recipe, made in the Kitchenaid.
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