Lorri's holiday challah in the bread machine
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | teaspoon | Yeast |
| 2½ | cup | Bread flour |
| ¼ | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 3 | tablespoons | Melted butter |
| 2 | Yolks | |
| ⅔ | cup | Apple juice |
Directions
Put the ingredients in your machine in your usual order, on the White Dough cycle. Try not to peek during the rise time.
Dump the dough onto a lightly floured board, divide into 3 sections, stretch to about 8-9" ropes, and braid. ( Other shapes such as big circles ringed together are also exquisite).In the meantime, heat oven to Warm.
When temperature is reached, TURN THE OVEN OFF. Put the challah braid onto a greased cookie sheet .Place in warmed oven for half an hour to rise.
Remove from oven and now preheat the oven to 350. Apply a glaze by brushing with a mixture of an egg yolk and a tablespoon of water. Sprinkle with sesame or other seeds, if you like. Bake at 350 for @ 30-40 minutes, until nicely browned.
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #252 by dylyn@... (Lorri Shapiro) on Sep 18, 1997