I lost my top . . .

# 66 - 2008

I said there'd be more bread today! The babes are baking again and this one is so a winner. Our very excited Kitchen of the Month Sara of I Like To Cook has the recipe here. She also has great photos of how this goes together.

This is a wonderfully easy and for bread reasonably fast bread to put together. The dough is wonderfully soft and silky . . . just look at all that egg and butter.

For some reason when you get three snakes on the counter . . .

they just seem to know what to do with themselves.

You egg wash it and dust it with sesame seeds or poppy or something that comes to mind - I thought seriously about cinnamon sugar but restrained myself ;)

And you let those babies rise. Speaking of babies, that looks a little like a pregnant mom doesn’t it?

When I took these out of the oven I laughed . . . a lot . . . first . . . then I thought “That’s not how it’s suppose to be!” Then I thought “that is how it’s suppose to be.”

I’m about to give you one of these long strings of relationship. My sister’s son’s wife just had a baby the morning I took these out of the oven. Challah is a celebration bread and it seemed like an ideal welcome baby goodie.

So I decided side by side this is a before and after delivery picture.

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This really is beautiful bread and I encourage you to give it a go. Even if you don’t have a new baby to celebrate and can’t think of anything else to celebrate, you can always celebrate beautiful and great tasting bread on your table.

BBB Challah

Monday, October 20, 2008

No not that top

the top knot on my Challah silly!

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