Challah Challah Challah

My wife bakes Challah - a traditional jewish egg bread that is served on Shabbos and Yom Tov (holidays) except of course Passover.

It is made from simple ingredients: Flower, Yeast, Eggs, Sugar and Oil. She also add other things to flavor it like, Italian Seasoning and Garlic (My favorite), Sesame Seed, Poppy Seeds for savory ones, and Blueberries, Cinnamon, Brown Sugar, Marshmallow, Sprinkles, etc. for sweet ones.

She sells to the local community at times. Here are a few batches.

Challah actually means Separated. There is a commandment in the Bible to take part of your Dough and give it to the Kohen (Priests) that we use to have when the Jewish Temple stood in Jerusalem. Now we no longer have the temple, but a peace of the dough is still separated, and the burnt in the oven, as a remembrance and to fulfill the commandment.

It is usually a very light fluffy bread, that goes well with almost anything. If you never tried making french toast from it, you are missing out!

My wife does not give out her recipe, but if you google it, you can find several ones available. She does 5lb bags of flower at a time. We have a Bosch bread mixer so she does not knead the dough by hand.

This is 15 lbs of dough

These are round, which is traditional for Rosh Hashanna until Simchat Torah

Here are a few more, note the 'Meat' stickers, in a Kosher Home, Milk and Meat are separated, and have different work areas. Since these are to be eaten with a meat meal, they are made with meat equipment.