Yesterday I decided on a whim to make some challah bread. Baking Illustrated recommends making the dough in a stand mixer or food processor, but what is the fun in that?
I broke out the bowls and wooden spoons to mix the dough by hand and greased up the elbows for some old fashioned kneading.
What's fun about making challah is that you really get to play around with the dough.
Instead of just plopping it into a loaf pan, you get to cut up the dough, roll out the dough, and braid it--twice!
The trick to getting braided shape right is actually to make two braids, a smaller braid that is placed on top of a bigger braid.
After one last rise, into the oven it goes!
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