Imma's excellent Challah - ingredients:
- 6 tbsp yeast
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup oil
- 2 tbsp salt
- 5 lb. bread flour
- 3½ cups water
- 1/3 cup potato flakes (optional)
- some honey (approximately 1/4 cup, optional)
- egg yolk or beaten add to brush challahs before baking
Directions: - Put flour in bowl
- Make well in middle of flour for use in next 3 steps
- Add one cup of sugar - some to well, rest to outside
- Heat one cup of water to 110° - 115° F (43.3° - 46° C) and add it to well
- Add yeast to well
- Let sit for 10 - 15 minutes
- Heat remaining 2½ cups of water to same temperature (110° - 115° F (43.3° - 46° C)) and add two of them to bowl; add potato flakes to remaining cup before adding it.
- Add eggs and oil and honey
- Add salt
- Mix and knead
- Let dough sit for an hour until risen
- Ed note: This is a good a time to take challah (with a bracha).
- punch down, divide, and braid
Ed. note: You can freeze the challahs now, defrost and let them rise later. - Let challahs rise until they double in size.
- Paint challahs with egg yolk
Bake at 350° for a half-hour to 35 minutes. Makes eight medium challahs.
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