Challah! or more adventures in bread.

Tim alerted me to a deal at his store: 1.99 for 2.5 dozen eggs.  We got a pack which brought us up to something like 3 dozen eggs in the house.  So I had to make a sweet egg bread.  I decided on this recipe: Smitten kitchen's best challah.

It uses a total of 5 eggs.

This is a completely milk free recipe.  It uses oil rather than butter.

The recipe noted that this may be a bit much for a standard kitchen aid mixer so I kneaded it by hand.  It did make a sizable lump of dough.  I'd say over 5 lb.



I attempted a 6 stranded braid (the 6 means something in Judaism) but it was kind of more trouble than it was worth.  This recipe had 2 egg washes for extra lovely crust.



They came out pretty well but the bottom of the smaller one really wanted to burn and the larger one stuck a little and ripped.  Should have used parchment paper.



Even prettier than the zopf!  Definately a different flavor of bread.  Kind of almost sour creamish.  I plan on making some nice french toast out of part of it.